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Logically Speaking, Period 6, 9 Jun '09
"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!]
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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