In Dorothy Sayers' novel "Have His Carcass", Lord Peter Wimsey describes a cryptography technique that is simple for encoding and decoding, yet relatively hard to crack. Your job is to implement this technique.
Here's how it works, in Sayers' (edited) words:
You choose a key-word of six letters or more, none of which recurs. Such as, for example, SQUANDER. Then you make a diagram of five squares each way and write the key-word in the squares like this:

Then you fill up the remaining spaces with the rest of the alphabet in order, leaving out the ones you've already got.
You can't put twenty-six letters in twenty-five spaces, so you pretend you're an ancient Roman or a medieval monk and treat I and J as one letter. So you get this:

Now let's take a message -- What shall we say? 'All is known, fly at once' -- that classic hardy perennial. We write it down all of a piece and break it into groups of two letters, reading from left to right. It won't do to have two of the same letters coming together in a pair, so where that happens, we shove in a Q, which won't confuse the reader. Now our message runs:
AL QL IS KN OW NF LY AT ON CE
If there is an odd letter at the end, we'd add on another Q to square it up. Now we take our first group, AL. We see that they come at the corners of a rectangle in which the other corners are SP. So we put down SP for the first two letters of the coded message. In the same way, QL becomes SM and IS becomes FA.
Ah, but here's KN. They both come on the same vertical line. In this case you take the letter next below each -- TC. Next comes OW, which translates to MX. Going on, SK, PV, NP, TU... If your first diagonal went from bottom to top, you must take it the same way again. ON = TU, NO would be UT.
CE come on the same horizontal line. In that case, you take the letter to the right of each. Since there isn't a letter to the right of C, you start again at the beginning of the line, producing DR.. Your coded message stands now:
SP SM FA TC MX SK PV NP TU DR
To make it look pretty and not give the method away, you can break it up into any lengths you like, or you can embellish it with punctuation as haphazard:
S.P. SMFA. TCMXS, KPVM, PT! UDR.
It's very ingenious. You can't guess it by way of the most frequent letter, because you get a different letter for each time, according as it's grouped to the next letter. And you can't guess individual words, because you don't know where the words begin and end. Is it at all possible to decode it without the keyword?
"Oh dear, yes," said Wimsey. "Any code ever coded can be decoded with pains and patience..."