The aim of this paper is to trace the development of cipher-writing from the very simple devices of the Ancients to the so-called Chiffre Indéchiffrable, generally called the Vigenère Cipher. The ...

The banner included the keyword “foresight,” which allowed the curious to use the Vigenère cipher method to decode a message hidden in the chart’s letters: “You may have vision but ours ...

As translating languages is similar to decoding a cipher, the approach may improve translation software.