Uncovering the Secrets of the 'Unbreakable' Vigenère Cipher 🔓

In this weeks video we dive deep into cryptography and explore the vigenere cipher. What it is, how it was created, and most importantly how it is broken. The mathematics surrounding this cipher is fascinating and at the end we show one way you make this easily broken cipher much stronger and actually unbreakable again!

Here is the code to break from the end of the video:
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