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Vigenère's mirror twin — same repeating key, subtraction the other way round, self-reciprocal.

Type

polyalphabetic substitution cipher

Breaking it

hard to break by hand

Era

Renaissance family, 19th-century name

Name

Royal Navy, named for Sir Francis Beaufort

Modes

encrypt · decrypt · cryptanalysis

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