Avoid These Common Mistakes When Breaking Classic Ciphers 🔓

We explore some well-known historical ciphers, from the Scytale to Caesar’s shift and the Vigenère cipher, showing how they worked and the methods used to break them.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:34 Scytale cipher
1:31 Breaking Scytale cipher
3:00 Caesar cipher
3:55 Breaking Caesar/Substitution ciphers
5:21 Viginère cipher
6:24 Breaking Viginère
9:35 Outro

Image credit of the Scytale: User "Luringen", CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1698345