Here I'd thought my EAOR code font and my TPNN font were lost to the ether, and today I got the idea to go to http://fayanora.23ae.com/fonts.htm , which is still up, and the fonts are still there. So, not lost after all ( Read more... )

I had this really cool cipherbet once, complete with its own font, called EAOR. It was inspired by Cyrillic, and so had backwards R's, upside down T's and all kinds of other oddities. But I can no longer find the font file, or any pictures of the EAOR cipherbet, even on hard copy. Google searches turn up nothing relevant. I really miss this ( Read more... )

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This is awesome! I didn't realize there were so many indecipherable texts remaining:

http://weburbanist.com/2010/05/24/undead-languages-10-mysterious-undeciphered-scripts/

I'm watching The Prisoner with kengr. Just saw an awesome and clever method for sending a secret message on it: A coded message decrypts into numbers, and the numbers correspond to slides. Put the slides in a projector in the right order, wear special (I think 3D) glasses, and there appears a message.

I think I have inherited my dad's love of history. But within my own unique contexts. Dad's crazy about WWII, the ancient Celts, and various other ancient cultures (and doesn't care for American history); in fact, his dream has always been to be an archaeologist. Too bad he never pursued that dream ( Read more... )

I just finished "The Code Book" by Simon Singh. Awesome book! It's about the history of codes and ciphers and how cryptography has changed history, very fascinating stuff. It also explains how a lot of codes work, from the simple caesar shift cipher to quantum cryptography. And it talked about the possibility of quantum computers, and how internet ( Read more... )

Don't be fooled by appearances!

13-35-13-35-24-7-20-12-6-51-30-20-12-20-8-24-23-8-15-30-25-38-1-24-5-20-18-7-4-25-52-28-12-28-52-28-15-2-26-30-20-7-8-12-
7-4-15-29-15-1-24-8-38-3-20-17-52-28-31-52-35-2-17-23-17-26-3-51-3-24-19-6-43-11-52-28-24-7-17-30-20-1-24-17-4-19-21-
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I challenge you to try to decipher these!

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This poem was written by John Saxon (an author of math textbooks).
((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0

Or for those who have trouble with the poem:

A Dozen, a Gross and a Score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
equals nine squared and no more.