Coded Communications. Nothing here to see.

[Spectrism]

Sometimes people speak clearly some important messages but you really have to be looking for them.
Nothing.

Knowing how to communicate so that unwanted listeners will be unable to understand is a valuable tool. Hiding your message is sometimes just as important as revealing it.

More to come.

[Spectrism]

Still nothing. Tell me: 55531534 43113315

But if you see something, let me know.

The simplest code is to create a number-letter matrix. Two ways to do this are:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26


or-

1 2 3 4 5

1 a b c d e

2 f g h i j

3 k l m n o

4 p q r s t

5 u v w x y

and let z= 01

So to encode the word, "happy" you (read right-down)write: 32 11 14 14 55 (without the spaces).

[NOOB]

Seems pretty easy to crack. No csi needed here

[Glass]

55 14 32 51 34 44 11 34 51 42 43 54 51 34 51 44 54 42 43 22

54 32 51 34 51 11 34 51 53 54 32 51 34 35 11 55 44 54 53 41 53 42 54

[Spectrism]

A much better code is one that has no direct and universal decoder but is selected randomly or with pre-understood methods. A book with most of the words that you expect to use can be the look-up table. Once all desired participants can be clued into the book and method, commo is easy. Naturally, the book or look-up source must be available to the recipient of the message.

Let's use this page- short story as the agreed look-up table....
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Plot881.shtml



In the morning I said 'Do you want to come to the garden centre?'
She said 'Are you going now?' I said I could wait if she wanted to
come. So I waited. We'd never grown anything before. We spoke
in the car. She said Charles Dickens had invented Christmas, I said
it was rubbish, then we didn't speak. At home we ask each other
if we want tea, or who should cook tonight. She says 'I want to
watch Whitechapel.' I say 'I'm going to do some work.' Or she sits
at the computer in the corner, her back in the room, hunched. I
sit in another corner, my head hung, reading about Agarttha, or
something. We keep in one room, except when I'm working, or
when one of us needs the toilet. We keep in one room to save
money on lights, but it means the whole house is dark, and it feels
dark. It was Anthea's idea, and I like it. I don't mind saying I'm
afraid of the dark a little. I'll say it's natural and it shows an open
mind when you can't say what's there. Anthea's always been good at that. She has an idea, like out of nowhere. That's why we sit like that, her facing the wall, me in a book, the other rooms all in darkness.
We went to the garden centre to buy secateurs for cutting back thorns and pruning the cypress. I had in mind to buy another birdbox and some seed and a sack of nuts for them. I told her 'I'd like to get something that's going to flower or smell pretty,' and she looked at what seeds we could sow in February while I looked at birdfeeders and nuts. There was a long sparrow house the size of a rabbit hutch, some small boxes for tits and wasps, one open-faced for robins, wagtails and wrens. I liked the house and I like robins, so I took both, then the nuts and two kilos of seed for a birdfeeder I found with suckers on it to stick on a window. She brought poppies and compost, then we looked at the vegetable seeds for when we'd finished the plot. We could plant parsnips and spring onions today, leeks, carrots and mange tout in March, then maybe squashes and courgettes in April. 'No point getting beans, is there,' she said. 'We never eat them.' Then some more flowers; sunflowers, lupins, some funny-coloured foxgloves – all sorts. We spent a fortune. We loaded it in the back then bought port at the Spar by Ann Summers' for while we worked. We didn't have to drive anywhere again until dark.



We can simply use a number to identify a line (or page or chapter) and a number to identify the word in that line. Be careful of auto-wrapping and spelling correction text!!! I stopped limiting the auto-expand/wrap on line 15.... using this method would be a disaster if everyone had different expansion sizes on their screens.

For example: "car" = 4-3; "dark" = 12-11

Now you know another means of sending word messages. You must send the look-up table information separately and guarded.

[Glass]

The catcher in the rye