CODES, CIPHERS AND SECRET WRITING Martin Gardner A fascinating, challenging book ALLA, Booklit Learn to use the most important codes and methods of secret communication in wat since ancien tines, Cipher ané decipher codes an by ope. plore He Farnese that changed he fate of rations nd political leaders. And enjoy hous of fut exjecuneating with feryplography--the scence of stezel w2ting Heginning with siaple leer sabntitutiony ad teanseston ciphers, sworld-famows siance writer Martin Gardner expla how to break complicated polyaipkabvtiea! ciphers and codes worked with gcd, “qusres, triangles and charts, Yootl Tearn ees that are keyed t0 {ypewriters and telephone dials. ever codes that se playing cards, Nonts and swizle sticks, Fxpesiment with inisble wviing inks tht mt Mlaklight ard turn eed under heat —and explore the Possities of sending messeges though outer space to nnkhown worlds Using this hook, you can salve the historically famous Playfair Caper used! by Australia in World War 11, the Piapen Cipher uted by ‘Confederate soldlee during Ube Civil War, Thomas Jllerson®, Wheel Cipher, the Beaufort sytem osed by the Britsh Roval Navy, codes devine by authors for hero it sherlack Holmes, Captalo ed and the Shadovr. And you will enjoy experimenting mith bizare methods of nescage sending” the Dot Cade, Knot Code, Svzale Code Sind more Youny eeyplaaalyss, epher fam wd posal ofall agen wil find hors of fatigue ard challenge in Codes, Ciphors and Secret Writing. 4 simsulathy mutt forthe inlermodite eryplograplaer he Kirkus Keviews Unabridged Dover 1984) republication of the wnsk orsinally published by Sino 8 Sehuwter, 1822. Bibliography 5 Gpp. 594 x 844. Paperbound, ISBN O-48b-24761-9 90000 Cmte cela dg — NNT NUSA 9780486) | Apannay a (neg Sq weep 12809Martin Gardner CODES, CIPHERS AND SECRET WRITING Dover Publications, Inc. New YorkFor osvwz gyrzc KsLQZ Copyright © 1872 by Martin Gardner Allright reserved under Pan American and Interational Copyright Conventions Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Lid. 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mil, Toronto, Ontario. Pblished in the United Kingdom by Constable andl Company: Lid ‘This Dover edition. fst published sn 19S4, isan unabridged and ‘unaltered repobliation af the work fist published by Sinn Schuster 12. New York, i 197 Manufactured inthe United States of Ameri Dower Publistons, Ine, 51 East 2nd Stet. Mineola, N¥.11501 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gardner Martin, 194 ‘Codes, ciphers, and secret writing Reprint. Originally published New York: Sinn & Schuster, 1972 Bibliography 1. Gryptogeaphy 2. Ciphers. 1 Tie 2103.63) 1988)" oo1138, s-son4 ISBN Oss6-2976 Contents Introduction Easy Transposition Ciphers ‘The Rail Fence Cipher + The Twisted Path Cipher + Scrambling with a Key Word Easy Substitution Ciphers Shift Ciphers + Date Shift Ciphers + Key Word Ciphers + The Pigpen Cipher + The Polybius Checkerboard + Random Substitution Ciphers + ‘The Shadow’s Code How to Break Substitution Ciphers Hard-to-break Polyalphabetic Ciphers Poxta’s Digraphie Cipher + ‘The Playfair Cipher + Lewis Carroll’ Vigenére Cipher Simple Code Machines ‘Typewriter Codes + A Telephone Dial Code + The ul a1 43 53