Vigenère
Encyclopedia
Vigenère may refer to:
- Blaise de VigenèreBlaise de VigenèreBlaise de Vigenère was a French diplomat and cryptographer. The Vigenère cipher is so named due to the cipher being incorrectly attributed to him in the 19th century....
, a 16th-century French cryptographer - The Vigenère cipherVigenère cipherThe Vigenère cipher is a method of encrypting alphabetic text by using a series of different Caesar ciphers based on the letters of a keyword. It is a simple form of polyalphabetic substitution....
, a cipher whose invention was later misattributed to Vigenère