A message encrypted with this system can be broken easily in only 2 key periods


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("case" ^ "hook") eq ("gone" ^ "lark")


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What if you don't know the key length to start with? Some well-chosen shifts and xors expose the redundancy in the N*(N-1) period, allowing it to be attacked with frequency analysis as though it had a length of only N+(N-1).