| Blaise de Vigenere's Inkwell | |
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Origin |
Blaise de Vigenere |
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Type |
Inkwell |
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Effects |
Ink used from this artifact will change the words written into an encrypted message |
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Downsides |
Without the Vigenere cipher messages are unreadable |
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Activation |
Writing with |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 10 Agents |
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Section |
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Aisle |
894-6352 |
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Shelf |
56542-4565-468 |
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Date of Collection |
1600s |
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Origin[]
Blaise de Vigenere (1523 - 1596) was a French diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist. The method of encryption known as the "Vigenere cipher" was originally attributed to Vigenere however he created a stronger autokey cipher in 1586, the original was created by Giovan Battista Bellaso. Vigenere's cipher uses a reciprocal table of ten alphabets and instead of being based on the first letter of a word in the letter he used a letter agreed upon before communication.
Effects[]
Ink used from this artifact will change the words written into an encrypted message. One must use the Vigenere cipher to read the message.