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Question 8

An encryption algorithm uses a symmetric Vigenère cipher helper function during decryption.

This pseudocode segment shows how the helper function is called within a loop:

SET plaintext TO plaintext & getPlainChar(keyChar, cipherChar)

State the data type or value category of what would be returned by the getPlainChar function.

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