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| | Vigenère cipher -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The Vigenère cipher consists of using several Caeser ciphers in sequence with different shift values. |
 | | To encipher, a table of alphabets can be used, termed a (Click link for more info and facts about tabula recta) tabula recta, Vigenère square, or Vigenère table. |
 | | It consists of the alphabet written out 26 times in different rows, each alphabet shifted cyclically to the left compared to the previous alphabet, corresponding to the 26 possible Caesar ciphers. |
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