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Vigenere, Vigenère|viʒənɛr|
The name of Blaise de Vigenère (1523–96), French scholar and student of ciphers, used absol. and attrib. with reference to a polyalphabetic cipher described by him (Traité des Chiffres, 1586).
1916P. Hitt Man. Solution Mil. Ciphers vii. 51 The cipher disk method is practically the Vigenere cipher with reversed alphabets. 1943[see modularly adv.]. 1944H. McCloy Panic 73 He tapped the cipher message..‘This is obviously a Vigenère, and all Vigenères can be broken.’ 1957Encycl. Brit. V. 929/2 The Confederate army used the Vigenère cipher—which the Federal army cryptanalysts are said to have solved every time a message in it was intercepted. 1961Shulman & Weintraub Gloss. Cryptogr., Vigenere cipher, a periodic substitution cipher originally employed with a 26 × 26 tableau and later converted into a slide with a normal clear alphabet over a normal cipher alphabet. 1963H. S. M. Coxeter W. W. R. Ball's Math. Recreations & Ess. (rev. ed.) xiv. 400 If the different alphabets are related as in a Vigenère square, certain properties of symmetry can be used to advantage. |