Vigenère may refer to:
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Blaise de Vigenère
Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596) () was a French diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist.
Biography
Vigenère was born into a respectable family in the village of Saint-Pourçain in Bourbonnais. When he w ...
, a 16th-century French cryptographer
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Vigenère cipher
The Vigenère cipher () is a method of encryption, 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 (crypt ...
, a cipher whose invention was later misattributed to Vigenère
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