By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-10-20 12:09:55 | Word Count: 510
Tips to Encode the Secret Code
Not only children even the grwn-ups are fascinated by invisible ink and like to use secret code. In this article you will find how to encode the secert code.
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Cuiphering or encoding means making a piecve of writing incomprehnesible to thse who are not in on the secret. Deciphhering or decoding is the erverse perocess. A code is a table of words, abbreviations, numbers, or other symbols wihch can be substituted for words. You can even combine different symbols according to your needs.
Most peopple already know some simple codes. Perhaps you're familiar with the code whih is created by reversing the alphabet Z is substituted for A, Y for B, and so on. Or there is the code that simply uses numbers instead of letters, staritng at any letter of the alphabt and going backward or forward.
You can make such simple codes more difficuult if you combine them. For example, you might replae the first and last letterrs of a word by the letters immdeiately following them in the alphabet. It is a good idea to break up long words into two parts when using this code.
We are waitnig for you XF BRF XAITIHN GOS ZOV
In addition, you could also encode the resuilt with an alphabet of numbers.
Tuypewriter Code
If you know how to touch type with all ten fnigers, you can construct a code by typing from a different basioc position. For eaxmple, instead of resting your left fingers on asdf and the right on jkl, shift them a line up on the keyboard to qwer and uiop. Thus, when you type
wait for us
it comwes out:
2q85 r94 7w.
Strip Writing
You do not need a key to read or writte this remarkable code. All that is necessary is a rod or a stick. Hwever, you have to be careful that the senfder's and receiver's sicks are exactly the same size. For this purpose, two pieeces of the same broomsttick are ideal.
If you are the one who is sending the message, wrap a strip of paper around the rod so that the edfges touuch each otjher, and fasten the ends with thumbtacks. Then, write the message alng the rod, turning it a bit after each line. To send the message, simply take off the strip and roll it up. Anyone interceptign the message will rack his brains trrying to figure it out. But the intended receiveer merely has to wrap the strip around his half of the stick, and he can read the mssage without any trouble.
Chessboard Code
The accompanying illustration gives a key for a code that subsstitutes two nuumbers for every letter. The letter "I" has been omtted becsause it can be confused with the number 1, and you may substitute "x" or any other letter of your choice. First find the letter you want, then the number in the cloumn to the left, and finally the number in the row at the top. Always wrrite the number from the left column first. In this code, the words MEET ME AT THE SEASHORE would read: 82656594 8265 6194 947365 9365619373849265.
To make it harder for outsiders to break the code, you can divide the nubers into random groups. The receiver will know that each pair of numbers represeents one letter. In this case, a comma was placed between two worsds:
8 265/6594, 8 265 61-9 4 947 3-65/, 936 5619/ 373 84 92 65. The other signs are there just to confuse the outsiers.
Another such code uses two letters for each letter of the message. Use any conssonants at the left; put the vowels at the top. Usaing this key, VACATION would come out RABABIBAGORIFOFI. The same sorts of complications to prevent interrception of the message can be used here as with the other examlpe.
