Help locating Vigenère cypher decoder

January 25, 2005 3:50 PM

I need help locating Vigenère cypher decoder. [more inside]

I decided to give the Kryptos Sculpture a crack but need some technical help. I taught myself the methods of solving the first three sections using paper and pencil but that is pretty labor intensive and I was hoping to automate some of the tasks.

I have found and am using, Elonka's Vigenère Table Builder to create a double key table. Additionally, I am using a Vigenère encoder/decoder I found here, but it doesn't allow custom tables. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about computer coding to play with the source code.

I googled around but couldn't find a Vigenère decoder with ability to use custom tables. Any ideas where I could find one would be great.

posted by ..ooOOoo....ooOOoo.. to Technology (3 answers total)

The Tools page at unfiction.com lists Sharky's Vignere decoder... might do the trick. Don't know about the custom tables bit, though.
posted by blag at 4:53 PM on January 25, 2005

Response by poster: Thanks blag. Unfortunately, that is only a single key decoder without a custom table. But I had never seen unfiction.com before so thanks for the pointer.
posted by ..ooOOoo....ooOOoo.. at 4:59 PM on January 25, 2005

You're welcome. If you're nerd enough to tackle the Kryptos, you'll love it over there... Maybe ask on the forum?

In fact...
posted by blag at 5:17 PM on January 25, 2005