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Cryptography: hidden writing. Cryptanalysis: the art or process of uncovering hidden writing without being told the key.
this is a rough draft of a short story A software developer and part time hacker, DARIUS, is returning to his high-rise apartment, after going for a run. As he jogs up the stairs, he is concentrating hard on solving a Rubik's cube in each hand. As he reaches the third or fourth …
The simplest cipher (and one of the oldest) the Caesar shift is named after Julius Caesar. The month of July is named after Julius, and he also has his own salad, his own method of having been delivered as a baby (which makes no sense as his mother and the surgeons deserve credi…
Here are the rules of Leon Coin (lb-coin). The emoji: 🏅 ...is used as the official emoji until a new emoji issuing foundation is established as a subsidiary of unicode and a custom emoji is thus available. Alternatively I would like to create an SVG to act as the official lo…
Also known as: The Freemason's Cipher. A substitution cipher that has particularly distinctive looking characters. The encryption/decryption key can be quickly re-created by hand, once you know the basic idea. Give anyone twenty seconds with a pencil and paper, and they can r…
Steganography is about *smuggling* information. It is the process of hiding one message inside another in such a way that a person finding the outer message will not realise that a second message is hidden within. Consider a prisoner who needs to receive a secret message. They k…
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