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Is there any easy way to crack a beaufort cipher?

We have a vigenere table, and are trying to guess the keyword.

Any easier way?

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yes (guessing ur doing the cypher challenge...?) This link has a really good decoding tool (saves you time), then trial and error keywords. also this tool; can be used to find the length of the keyword; paste the texts you're decoding then the number of the column(s) with the most x's is the length of the keyword

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