I think pretty much every person gets some kind of an idea for code, you know, to avoid people reading their journals, or to safeguard communications with other friends. I have passed through several models of alphabet over the years, and I intend to line them out over some time. In case someone else has some kind of a desire for such things. I am afraid I cannot tell exactly what my current method is, but I will show the thought process and basic idea.
Where does cryptography begin for a child? Probably as one of those ridiculous cereal box riddles, where some kind of shape, symbol, or graphic is used as a placeholder for an English letter. Of course, after the riddle is over, it becomes apparent that learning the symbols to a point of fluency would be wildly difficult. Thus I introduce my first tenet of solid amateur cryptography:
- A cryptographic set must be able to be learned and used with no written help by a person of average intelligence; the set must require no ‘Cheat sheets’ or other such physical implements for a normal person to encode or decode the block.
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