Logically Speaking, Period 6, 9 Jun '09

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"Good afternoon, everyone," Mohinder started, his French just a little rusty. "If everyone will take a seat we can start to talk about encryption."

Switching back into English he began passing round handouts. "Not that one language truely counts as an encryption of another. One language may have words that lack meaning or nuance in translation and changing one to another is not as simple as running through a set of fixed rules, as anyone who's used Babelfish or equivalents will have found out."

"Our most basic form of cryptogram is direct substitution, one letter always standing for another, with various methods for assigning the codes."

Mohinder went on to summarise the logic and processes of a few more cipher techniques before finishing - "You should all have enough information to code and decode your own messages, or the examples. Or if you're feeling ambitious taking a stab at the Voynich manuscript."

[OCD is up!]

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Coding 5 (LS)

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

Ciphering or decoding (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thelogiczone/crypto_index.htm), or passing (http://www.nsa.gov/kids/ciphers/ciphe00003.shtml) coded messages.

Re: Coding 5 (LS)

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

This was something Jon was really good at, that whole Black Ops thing came in handy sometimes. He might be a little rusty, but it was coming back pretty quickly.

Re: Coding 5 (LS)

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

By the time the exercise portion of the class came around, Gabrielle had come up with four different sets of codes.

All of them were ridiculously overcomplicated; she got carried away far too easily when she was enthusiastic about something.

Re: Coding 5 (LS)

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Valentine hit up the examples, jotted down a few codes of her own, and then spent some time considering the challenging one. If some of the greatest coding minds didn't stand a chance, she held no delusions of grandeur that she'd be able to do anything with it, but it could be fun (or incredibly frustrating) to try.

Re: Coding 5 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

Yakko spent the bulk of his time decoding the Voynich manuscript. "I've got it!" he cried out at long last. "It says 'up up down down left right left right b a start.'"