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3 unusual facts about Vigenère cipher


Hebern rotor machine

This turns the basic substitution into a polyalphabetic one similar to the well known Vigenère cipher, with the exception that it required no manual lookup of the keys or cyphertext.

Vigenère

The Vigenère cipher, a cipher whose invention was later misattributed to Vigenère

Vigenère cipher

The Gronsfeld cipher is a variant created by Count Gronsfeld which is identical to the Vigenère cipher, except that it uses just 10 different cipher alphabets (corresponding to the digits 0 to 9).


Beaufort cipher

The Beaufort cipher, created by Sir Francis Beaufort, is a substitution cipher similar to the Vigenère cipher, with a slightly modified enciphering mechanism and tableau.


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