Edgar A. Poe, Rolling Over in His Grave…
Many, many moons ago, having loved cryptograms and various logic puzzles as a kid, I came up with my own code system that I thought unbreakable. To this day, I think it’s still pretty good, and with a few modifications for situations of which I had not previously thought at that young age, along with mixing in today’s strong encryption methods and advanced crypto techniques, it would be quite formidable. Here’s a sample of that more simplified version:
421:45 498:91 15688:41639 324:1 360:6 399:8 270:36 137:2 268:6 270:12 46:108 379:25 379:14 13:5 37145:699 298:2 385:-18 554:27 5:148
Another encoding of the same 15-word sentence:
185:656 423:21 64:124 721:21521 241:-2 371:16 380:11 386:-10 -386=5 4:8 305:4 241:71 134=1 6?18 404:-1 4:-9 4:-22 77:34 436:32 313:2 3453:18862 109:116
I encoded these very quickly for purposes of example and may have introduced an inadvertent error or two, but you can get the gist of it. The cool thing is that the same sentence could be encoded in more than a million, billion, trillion different ways yet still properly decode back to the original! Care to have a “crack” at it?
Why the reference to Poe? He considered himself quite the accomplished cryptographer…
