Bacon’s Cipher: The Binary of Typography

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Imagine a secret message hidden not in the words you read, but in the very shape of the letters themselves.…

Alliteration & Assonance as a Simple Cipher

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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Cryptography

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Could the language you speak fundamentally change how you think about codes and ciphers? This thought experiment delves into the…

The Copiale Cipher: A Society’s Secret Rituals

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The Dorabella Cipher: Elgar’s Musical Mystery

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Dive into the mystery of the Dorabella Cipher, an 87-character encrypted note from famed composer Edward Elgar that has baffled…

Linguistic Steganalysis: Detecting Hidden Data

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The “Kryptos” Sculpture: An Unsolved CIA Puzzle

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Lexical Encryption in Poetry

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The Great Cipher of Louis XIV

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For over 200 years, the secrets of France's Sun King, Louis XIV, were locked away in a fiendishly complex code…

Nullity Protocols in Diplomatic Cables

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