Vigenère cipher
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vigen-re-cipher-179-16323746
title:
Vigenère cipher
text:
The Vigenère cipher is a method of encrypting alphabetic text where each letter of the plaintext is encoded with a different Caesar cipher, whose increment is determined by the corresponding letter of another text, the key. For example, if the plaintext is attacking tonight and the key is oculorhinolaringology, then
- the first letter a of the plaintext is shifted by 14 positions in the alphabet, yielding o;
- the second letter t is shifted by 2 yielding v;
- the third letter t is shifted
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description:
Simple type of polyalphabetic encryption system
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher
date created:
2002-08-08T21:52:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T02:39:52Z
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