If it feels like an Alberti Cipher it is one!

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Take something extremely simple, like the fact that gallows favor word-initial position, or word-initial preceded by "o". Or that y so often seeks the end of words. Or that "a" avoids the end of words. And so on and so on. A substitution cipher does not explain this, and the more randomness you add, the harder it will become.

I'm not referring to a simple substitution cipher.  I believe the alberti cipher which I feel is used for the VMS is a hybrid where short VMS vords, glyphs and numbers are set in positions and relate to a formula on four rings. Furthermore, it could be the symbols and vords could be on opposing rings (meaning the 1st inner ring is all vms single letters) 2nd ring Latin Letters, 3rd ring vms short vords which are builders to add to the VMS letters on the inner ring and lastly the outer ring all numbers 0-9 which are random in configuration and the total for all the disk relationships with VMS glyph's, Latin letters, short vms vords and numbers total 128.  In fact I speculate that 36 is the number used for all rings regarding each VMS glyph, Latin letter, short vms vords and lastly the 36 numbers on the very outer VMS disk f57v.  A sort of mechanism where the inner ring is fixed and the VMS letters are randomly placed like the third is fixed and short vms vords are randomly placed.  The 2nd and 4th rings turn with random Latin letters and numbers set by a shift, increment and period feature.  Is this Helpful, I have been bouncing this around in my head for a couple of days now in and out of sleep, but I'm spilling the beans.
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A monoalphabetic cipher uses fixed substitution over the entire message, whereas a polyalphabetic cipher uses a number of substitutions at different positions in the message, where a unit from the plaintext is mapped to one of several possibilities in the ciphertext and vice versa.
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