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jdege	Jun 24 2009, 04:58 PM
Elite member Posts: 263 Group: Admin Member #246 Joined: December 7, 2006	I'm having a hard time following your explanation. Quote: How it all works: We'll take the first letter W. As it's the first character, it's at box 1. Travel down the plane text characters directly below it until you reach W. Then follow that row to the right until you reach the cipher text which is F. W has now been converted into F. Now we apply the key to F. The first character of the key is F (6) so we count six boxes up to get Q. That's the finale enciphered letter. I run down the first column until I find the plaintext letter 'W'. Fine, so far. Then I run right along that row until I find the ciphertext letter 'F'. Do you mean the key letter 'F'? You don't have any ciphertext, yet, so I don't see how we could use it in the process. In any case, we've found the row in column 1 that contains a 'W', and then found the cell in that row that contains an 'F'. Then we "count six boxes up to get Q". When I count six boxes up from that cell I get a '0'. The 'Q' in that column is 11 cells down, the Q in that row is 11 cells to the right. Now there is a 'Q' six cells up from the 'W' in the first column, but if that had been what you meant, why this talk about running along the row?
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