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Breaking the Beaufort Cipher

The Beaufort cipher's reciprocal formula (C = K − P instead of Vigenère's C = P + K) looks like it should matter to an attacker. It doesn't: the same Kasiski examination, Index of Coincidence, and chi-squared pipeline that breaks Vigenère breaks Beaufort just as cleanly.