The Science of Secrecy Season 1 Episode 3 Le Chiffre Indechiffabrle: the Uncrackable Code
- TV-G
- October 26, 2000
- 24 min
Profiling mid-19th-century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage, who was challenged to crack a particularly resilient code---the Vigenère cipher, which had been unbreakable for 300 years.