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200-Year-Old Cipher Finally Cracked

Posted by timothy on from the castle-aaaaaaaagh dept.

Attila Dimedici writes "A code expert just cracked a code used by a friend of Thomas Jefferson in a letter written to Jefferson some 200 years ago. This code is fairly easy to crack using a computer, but extremely difficult without one. I think it would have been much harder if the author had not included an indication as to what code algorithm he used in the letter accompanying the coded message."

2 of 141 comments (clear)

  1. And it said.... by DeadboltX · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine!

  2. Poetry in motion (shift... that is) by BForrester · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Make the pie higher

    I think we all agree, the past is over.
    This is still a dangerous world.
    It's a world of madmen
    and uncertainty!
    and potential mental losses.

    Rarely is the question asked
    Is our children learning?
    Will the highways of the internet
    become more few?
    How many hands have I shaked?

    They misunderestimate me.
    I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
    I know that the human being and the fish
    can coexist.

    Families is where our nation finds hope
    Where our wings take dream.
    Put food on your family!
    Knock down the tollbooth!
    Vulcanize society!
    Make the pie higher!
    Make the pie higher!