В ETUDES FOR PROGRAMMERS CIPHER NOTEBOOK / 01

Find the words inside the cipher.

An unknown alphabet. A repeating key. Recover both from an English or Russian Vigenère ciphertext, right here in your browser.

The English example restores the book’s missing 55-letter line and corrects 15 printed letters. The ending FINI HARI is preserved. Read the reconstruction notes ↗

01 The ciphertext

English letters A–Z · spacing is ignored · up to 4,096 letters

0 letters

Ready when you are.

Recovered keyword

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Waiting for a discovery

Mixed alphabet

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02 The decrypted letters

The literal result, arranged in the original five-letter groups.

03 Put the words back

Estimated word boundaries from English word frequencies. Every decrypted letter is preserved; unusual words and transcription errors can produce imperfect spacing.