Edgar Allen Poe was a famous student of cryptography, the study of codes and secret messages. Poe wrote an essay, “A Few Words on Secret Writing” in which he offered a substitution cipher. Felix has adapted Poe’s cipher to the keys on a computer keyboard.
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Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first writers to use ciphers in his plots. His short story, “The Gold Bug.” Increased the public’s interest in cryptography. Poe used a substitution code in “The Gold Bug.” This week’s code is based on Poe’s code published in 1844.
Below is the code which uses characters or symbols for letters.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
) | ( | / | # | . | , | ; | : | ? | @ | ! | & | % |
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
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This week’s message is:
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. Lady Bird Johnson