The 2016 Academy Awards Could Change Everything â UPDATE. BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 10: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, winner of Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for 'The Revenant,' poses in the press room during the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 10, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.
The VigenÃ¨re Cipher. The VigenÃ¨re cipher, was invented by a Frenchman, Blaise de VigenÃ¨re in the 16th century. It is a polyalphabetic cipher because it uses two or more cipher alphabets to encrypt the data. In other words, the letters in the VigenÃ¨re cipher are shifted by different amounts, normally done using a word or phrase as the encryption key .
This word was invented by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers' League (N.P.L.), at its annual meeting. The word figured in the headline for an article published by the New York Herald Tribune on February 23, 1935, titled Puzzlers Open 103rd Session Here by Recognizing 45-Letter Word: