kaylapocalypse:spiritofally: Back in middle school, my friends and I used a very simple coded lang
kaylapocalypse: spiritofally: Back in middle school, my friends and I used a very simple coded language for writing secret messages. I saw some posts about needing to hide one’s beliefs from partners/bosses/parents so I wanted to share it with you! These would also be great to incorporate into sigils since they are simple lines and dots. Reblogging this again cause it’s so cool So fun fact time! This “code” is called a Pig Pen Cypher. It’s used sometimes in Information Security Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions. My personal first experience with it was at Circle City Con (InfoSec Conference) in Indianapolis three years ago. I personally participated in the CTF there and the badges each had a piece of the code or the key. For instance, the attendee badge (which I had) contained 1/3 of the actual coded message; I managed to find the other 2/3 and jotted down the code. My husband was on the Safety Ops staff, so had a different badge that contained a piece of the key. One of the other Safety Ops guys mentioned that it looked a little bit like a Pig Pen Cypher, so I looked that up and used it to decode the message I had. It worked!(For those curious, it wasn’t my first CTF, but it *was* my first using nothing more than a pencil, paper, and my phone. I didn’t have a VPN to use on my laptop, so I forewent doing so. And for those super curious, I shared 3rd place.)So yes, this cypher is pretty awesome and widely used. But not everyone is in the know about it! And even if they are, you can always double-encode your message using a different sort of cypher under the Pig Pen Cypher (I might recommend a Ceasar Cypher, which has a rotation of 13 letters. This means the letter A = M) -- source link
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