Vigenère
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Vigenère may refer to:
  • Blaise de Vigenère
    Blaise de Vigenère
    Blaise 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 cipher
    Vigenère cipher
    The 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
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