Space Code

The Space Code is one of the simplest codes to write, and a simple code to break if you recognize that all the letter groups have the same number of letters.

Write the message as one long word,

changeisthelawoflifeandthosewholookonlytothepastorpresentarecertaintomissthefuture

Then break the word into groups of 2, 3, or 4 letters. This cipher was broken into three letter groups.

cha  nge  ist  hel  awo  fli  fea  ndt  hos  ewh  olo oko  nly  tot  hep  ast  orp

res  ent  are  cer  tai  not  mis  sth  efu  tur  eve

There are eighty-two letters in the cipher. Three doesn’t divide evenly into eighty-two so two null letters are added to the end of the message. The null letters are not part of the message.

To decipher the message, you write the letters into one long word and look for words until you break the code.  You need to be careful; you may find words that aren’t in the message. In this code you may find pastor or tare, but they aren’t in the cipher. You may also see words like tot and not in the code which are not in the proverb. 

The solution to this week’s code is:

Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy