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Attack this cryptosystem piecemeal: guess letters, use expected English language frequence to validate guesses, catch common English trigrams, and so on.
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Instead of making spot guesses at to known plaintext, treat the collection of ciphertexts the same way you would repeating-key XOR.
Obviously, CTR encryption appears different from repeated-key XOR, but with a fixed nonce they are effectively the same thing.
To exploit this: take your collection of ciphertexts and truncate them to a common length (the length of the smallest ciphertext will work).
Solve the resulting concatenation of ciphertexts as if for repeating- key XOR, with a key size of the length of the ciphertext you XOR'd.
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