Actually, no, Vignere is the correct spelling. Vigenere is the typo. Alas, according to Google, this error also appears to be very widespread.

The cypher was invented by one Blaise de Vignere. In English, you would pronounce his last name as roughly vin-yeah.

hmm, no, actually, that is wrong. It is Vigénère. No lesser authority than Bruce Schneier, in Applied Cryptography has it this way. I should have checked there first. Oh well, if I ever run into the teacher who taught it that way, I'll be sure to update him.

For what it's worth, the name would be pronounced visj-en-air, where the sj sound is like the s in Asia or measure.

Man I hate when this happens

--
g r i n d e r
print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u';

In reply to Re: Re: Vigenere Cipher: Encode and Decode by grinder
in thread Vigenere Cipher: Encode and Decode by mrbbking

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