Abstract: Secure communication has always been a primary focus and have challenges in encrypting messages. As the ancient cipher techniques that were used to secretly communicate have been compromised ...

Pigpen code, also known as the Masonic or Freemason’s cipher, is a simple substitution cipher that originated in the 18th century. It relies on geometric symbols to represent letters and can be a fun ...

The Pigpen Cipher is a simple substitution cipher originally used by Freemasons. It is also known as masonic cipher, and was in fairly wide use in the 18th century, for writing personal notes as well ...

The Cryptologic Travel Guide I developed with Christrian Baumann also features some cryptologic sites in Italy. These include the typewriter museum in Parcines, some cryptographic inscriptions in Pisa ...

My blog readers were once again very quick. On Saturday, I presented five unsolved encrypted messages on Cipherbrain that I thought were solvable. At the ICCH webinar that evening, I wanted to briefly ...

The cipher is believed to be an ancient cipher and is said to have originated with the Hebrew religios leader. There is evidence that suggests that the Knights Templar utilized a pig-pen cipher during ...