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I was just studying the Playfair cipher and from what I've understood, it is just a slightly better version of a Caesar cipher, in that it isn't actually mono-alphabetic but rather the 'digrams' are mono-alphabetic. I believe that since it offers a larger combination i.e 26*26=676 digrams, it is better than a Caesar Cipher which would give us a maximum of sixtwenty-six keys. So does this mean that the Playfair Cipher have 676 keys including the duplicate or is it larger than that ?

I was just studying the Playfair cipher and from what I've understood, it is just a slightly better version of a Caesar cipher, in that it isn't actually mono-alphabetic but rather the 'digrams' are mono-alphabetic. I believe that since it offers a larger combination i.e 26*26=676 digrams, it is better than a Caesar Cipher which would give us a maximum of six keys. So does this mean that the Playfair Cipher have 676 keys including the duplicate or is it larger than that ?

I was just studying the Playfair cipher and from what I've understood, it is just a slightly better version of a Caesar cipher, in that it isn't actually mono-alphabetic but rather the 'digrams' are mono-alphabetic. I believe that since it offers a larger combination i.e 26*26=676 digrams, it is better than a Caesar Cipher which would give us a maximum of twenty-six keys. So does this mean that the Playfair Cipher have 676 keys including the duplicate or is it larger than that ?

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How many keys does the Playfair Cipher have?

I was just studying the Playfair cipher and from what I've understood, it is just a slightly better version of a Caesar cipher, in that it isn't actually mono-alphabetic but rather the 'digrams' are mono-alphabetic. I believe that since it offers a larger combination i.e 26*26=676 digrams, it is better than a Caesar Cipher which would give us a maximum of six keys. So does this mean that the Playfair Cipher have 676 keys including the duplicate or is it larger than that ?