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	The Pigpen Cipher
		The Pigpen Cipher was used by Freemasons in the 18th Century to keep their records private.
		The cipher does not substitute one letter for another; rather it substitutes each letter for a symbol.
		The alphabet is written in the grids shown, and then each letter is enciphered by replacing it with a symbol that corresponds to the portion of the pigpen grid that contains the letter.
	www.simonsingh.net /The_Black_Chamber/pigpenWithMenu.html (88 words)

	Re: Ciphers (Was: Berber/Tifinagh)
		I think such a collection of symbols A becomes a cipher for a true script B when it replicates the usage of symbols in B, irregularities and all.
		In the Pigpen cipher, there is a symbol for C and one for T and one for H, and C+H and T+H are slapped together exactly as they are in Latin to spell English words.
		The question at that point is which script one chooses to consider the cipher and which the (or a) "true" script.
	www.mail-archive.com /unicode@unicode.org/msg19603.html (163 words)

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		Pigpen Cipher Break the CODE: Clue #1: The Pig Pen Cipher The Pigpen cipher has been around for hundreds of years.
		Some have traced a cipher similar to this back to the Crusades which were from 1095-1272 (Queens University).
		Even though the ideas of the pigpen cipher are easy for us to understand today it was not widely used in the 1600's.
	www.fremont.k12.ca.us /chadbourne/sullivan/math/codes/pigpen.doc (1032 words)

	Diagram Ciphers
		This cipher goes back to the time of the Crusades (1095-1272) but it wasn’t until the time of the American Civil War in the 1860s that the pigpen cipher became popular for sending secret messages.
		This cipher is known as the pigpen cipher because the letters of the alphabet – the “pigs” are trapped within the lines – the “pens.” The shapes made by these “pens” either with or without a dot, represent the letters inside.
		The quarter circle cipher uses little pie shapes and dots as a substitution for letters.
	educ.queensu.ca /~fmc/may2004/diagram.html (245 words)

	Murky.org » Pigpen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Pigpen Cipher is a simple monoalphabetic substitution which has persisted over the centuries.
		Pigpen is trivial to read if you know the key, and easy to decipher if you don’t.
		There are many examples of this kind of cipher being used, one of the more famous is in Conan Doyles’ Sherlock Holmes story, the Case of the Dancing Men.
	www.murky.org /blg/2004/10/10/pigpen (284 words)

	Cipher, - Cipher Games and Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A cipher is an algorithm for performing encryption (and the reverse, decryption) — a A key must be selected before using a cipher to encrypt a message.
		A block cipher is a type of symmetric-key encryption algorithm that transforms a fixed-length block of plaintext (unencrypted text) data into a block of
		Cipher Block 4 2005 - Faith CiPher Block 1 2005 - Propaganda.
	yesinter.com /ysne/cipher.htm (345 words)

	Send Secret Messages Using Codes and Ciphers: National Geographic Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A typical pigpen substitutes a symbol for each letter.
		Another route cipher is shown in segment 2 in the picture above.
		Read the cipher from bottom to top in each row.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /ngkids/trythis/secretcodes/pigpen.html (168 words)

	Substitution Cipher Cracker's Workbench
		However, the advantage of ciphers is also it's disadvantage, because if in a code if you know what jam means, you don't know what am means.
		Substitution ciphers are ciphers that substitute letters for letters.
		The pigpen cipher is illustrated in figure 1 and 2.
	www.sonic.net /~sjl/codes/history.html (350 words)

	Braingle: Substitution Ciphers
		A substitution cipher is one in which parts of the plaintext are substituted for something else according to the rules of the cipher.
		A monoalphabetic cipher uses the same substitution across the entire message.
		In a polyalphabetic cipher, the substitution may change throughout the message.
	www.braingle.com /brainteasers/codes/substitution.php (164 words)

	Secret Message Kit PigPen Cipher
		This is the table of PigPen Cipher symbols that is printed at the top of each PigPen Cipher Message Pad sheet from:
		The PigPen Cipher is a simple symbolic substitution cipher.
		Since the symbols are uncommon, this cipher is almost always written by hand.
	www.secretcodebreaker.com /pigpen.html (55 words)

	lazylaces ::: treasure hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		You only gain that from solving the pigpen cipher, (which I translated anyway for pure self achievment), so it is fair that you can use it, because it is a reward for solving one of the puzzles.
		Now generally speaking, I'm good with "pigpen ciphers," this is also because they are generally easy using just ONE set of boxes, or an easily distinguisable pattern of what would be which one.
		Diego, with regards to the dots, they are generally in the same location in the grid, as the pigpen cipher of old.
	www.lazylaces.com /article.asp?p=1301 (3023 words)

	JBA - The Science of Secrecy
		Learn about a cipher which we will not be covering in class (refer to the syllabus).
		Learn about a particular event in history in which cryptography played an important role (again, one that we will not be covering class).
		Write a program or programs to implement some of the ciphers are studying.
	www2.truman.edu /~tvazzana/jba/projects.htm (102 words)

	Pigpen cipher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The pigpen cipher uses graphical symbols assigned according to a key similar to the above diagram.
		The pigpen cipher (sometimes called the masonic cipher or Freemason's cipher) is a simple substitution cipher exchanging letters for symbols based on a grid.
		David E. Newton, "Freemason's Cipher" in Encyclopedia of Cryptology, 1998, Order: ISBN 0874367727.
	pigpen-cipher.iqnaut.net (148 words)

	Pigpen Cipher at satukubik.net
		And as a scout, I learn some ciphers from the one that is simplest, such as shift cipher to a more complicated cipher like semaphore and morse (well, now you couldn’t say they are cipher anyway, since all people know how to decode it, it is now more like a skill).
		At first, I thought the name of the cipher will be very similar to the English translation of Indonesian name, so it should be something like ‘box cipher’, ’square cipher’ or something like that.
		I was wrong… After some times I found that the English name for the cipher is Pigpen cipher, and guess what… It actually used by Freemason to communicate.
	nanda.satukubik.net /2006/09/29/pigpen-cipher (398 words)

	Maranatha Puzzle - Retailer Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It holds the translated text of the 'Pigpen Cipher' that forms the body of the first book.
		This translation presents a number of key words that are examined in terms of their origin, meaning and interpretation and, in some cases, suggests further questions and lines of enquiry.
		Maranatha Et in Arcadia Ego is set in an encrypted text, a pigpen cipher, as this places everyone that starts the journey in the same place.
	www.maranatha-puzzle.com /retail.asp (403 words)

	Braingle: Codes, Ciphers, Encryption and Cryptography
		Cryptography is the discipline of using codes and ciphers to encrypt a message and make it unreadable unless the recipient knows the secret to decrypt it.
		The following codes and ciphers can be learned and used to encrypt and decrypt messages by hand.
		Unlike substitution ciphers that replace letters with other letters, a transposition cipher keeps the letters the same, but rearranges their order according to a specific algorithm.
	www.braingle.com /brainteasers/codes/index.php (210 words)

	Pig Pen Cipher.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By creating a matrix of the alphabet within a tic-tac-toe box a pig pen cipher can be created.
		I then find the location of the dot to determine exactly which letter is represented by the symbol.
		To make the cipher even harder, mix up the letters inside of the matrix.
	home.rmci.net /dunhamk/crypto/pigpen.htm (173 words)

	Pigpen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pig-Pen (Peanuts) is the name of a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.
		Pigpen is the nickname of Ron McKernan, a founding member of the Grateful Dead.
		Pigpen cipher is also the name of a substitution cypher in where the English letters are replaced with symbols that correspond to an easy to generate key.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pigpen (146 words)

	The Pigpen Cipher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This short page is about a very simple and non-secure cipher.
		It replaces a letter by a symbol, instead of another letter.
		This cipher is called the Pigpen Cipher and was used by the Freemasons in the 1700s.
	people.bath.ac.uk /tab21/pigpen.html (91 words)

	Puzzle 3: Pigpen cipher
		Substitution ciphers do not have to just shift the letters around.
		For instance, you could use a backwards alphabet, mix up the letters completely at random, or even use symbols instead of letters.
		Try decoding this message which is encrypted using symbols from the 'Pig Pen' cipher.
	www.gchq.gov.uk /codebreaking/puzzle3.html (72 words)

	Cronos World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Finally I'll mention the pigpen cipher, an early cipher used by the freemasons.
		It would perhaps more rightly belong under substitution ciphers, as with many simple ciphers you could change the symbols into characters and then treat what came out as a substitution cipher.
		The pigpen is more of a code, and fairly standard in alphabet, so here is the alphabet:
	www.caesum.com /handbook/ciph1.htm (449 words)

	Dr
		A Caesar Cipher is a particular type of simple substitution cipher – here the cipher alphabet is just a shift of the plaintext alphabet.
		Caesar’s original cipher was a shift by 3 letters.
		A cipher is any cryptographic substitution where a letter is replaced by a letter or symbol.
	facstaff.bloomu.edu /jpolhill/Math361/lecturenotes1.htm (1495 words)

	Codes for Cubs and Scouts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Pigpen code is quite easy to catch on to.
		Each letter is represented by the part of the "pigpen" that surrounds it.
		If it's the second letter in the box, then it has a dot in the middle.
	www.scouting.org.za /codes/pigpen.html (59 words)

	Encryption for Kids! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A code is used to keep the message short or to keep it secret.
		Codes and ciphers are forms of secret communication.
		A code replaces words, phrases, or sentences with groups of letters or numbers, while a cipher rearranges letters or uses substitutes to disguise the message.
	www.cerias.purdue.edu /education/k-12/teaching_resources/lessons_presentations/cryptology.html (723 words)

	Masonic code: Freemason's cipher AKA Pigpen cipher - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		The advantage of steganography over cryptography alone is that messages do not attract attention to themselves, to messengers, or to recipients.
		They borrowed computer time on the Cray and it was estimated that it would have take 40 years of computer time to break the code into a readable message.
		I also heard rumors at the same time that NSA had tried its hand at various ciphers from throughout history, but that they were not "officially" transcribed, so nothing was published about it.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread201674/pg (968 words)

	Mediaeval cipher manuscripts
		It is clear that he did not know of any cipher system of the period which was not essentially a simple substitution cipher.
		Almost all of the manuscripts cited contain a few words and phrases of ciphertext inserted into normal manuscripts: he gives only one example of a manuscript written entirely in cipher.
		The entire manuscript is in cipher apart from the contents, title and concluding formula.
	mysite.freeserve.com /philipneal_vms/bischoff.html (397 words)

	Pigpen cipher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The use of symbols is no impediment to cryptanalysis however, and cryptanalysis is identical to that of other simple substitution schemes.
		David E. Newton, "Freemason's Cipher" in Encyclopedia of Cryptology, 1998, ISBN 0-87436-772-7.
		This page was last modified 09:08, 25 September 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pigpen_cipher (151 words)

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