Edgar Allen Poe was a famous student of cryptography.  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.