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An interactive tutorial on cracking Vigenère's cipher (simonsingh.net)
2 points by mettamage on Sept 10, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Note: the interactive parts starts at [1]. The link that you're referred to shows some needed context on who cracked it and a little bit how it was cracked.

It was quite fun! I did it mindlessly, without thinking mathematically and I still understood the general idea behind it!

[1] https://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/vigenere_cracki...




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