Just for fun, the Vigenere Cipher, in just a few lines of Python. For more info, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigenère_cipher
import string def vigenere(c,k,e=1): # e=1 to encrypt, e=-1 to decrypt wk=[string.ascii_uppercase.find(ch) for ch in k.upper()] wc=[string.ascii_uppercase.find(ch) for ch in c.upper()] wc = [ (x[0]+(e*x[1]))%26 for x in zip(wc,wk*(len(wc)/len(wk)+1))] print string.join([string.ascii_uppercase[x] for x in wc],"") >>> vigenere('thiscryptosystemisnotsecure', 'cipher') VPXZGIAXIVWPUBTTMJPWIZITWZT >>> vigenere('VPXZGIAXIVWPUBTTMJPWIZITWZT', 'cipher', -1) THISCRYPTOSYSTEMISNOTSECURE