How NOT to do encryption (Breaking Viginère, Caesar, Scytale 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 br...

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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. This video was voiced using Elevenlabs for privacy reasons. If you want to try it out yourself, you can sign up using my affiliate link, which supports me with a small commission with no additional costs for you: https://try.elevenlabs.io/premature-abstraction 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

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