Codebreaking and Cypher

What is Codebreaking

• Solving Codes to find hidden messages

• Writing hidden messages

• Coding a computer

What is Cypher

• A type of number

• A pattern or picture

• A disguised way of writing

• A secret way of hiding messages

Name this type of Cypher

(a)  

Name this Code

• Norse code

• Morse code

• dash/dot code

• Braille

Did Augustus Caesar invent the Caesar Cypher

• True

• False

Which of these is the oldest

• Morse code

• Stenography

• Pigpen Cypher

• Caesar Cypher

What is Stenography

• Concealing a message in a inconspicuous place

• Drawing loads of dots and dashes

• Changing a letter into a number

• Using Steno graphs to conceal a message

How was stenography first used

• By concealing a message in a Steno graph

• Shaving the head of a slave and tattooing the message on

• Putting dots in a newspaper to transport messages across occupied Europe

• Hiding messages in food

who invented pigpen Cypher

• The Greeks

• The Catholic Church

• The Freemasons

• The Romans

True or false - Pigpen Cypher was easy to be cracked

• True

• False