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This page presents the Four Essential Travel Phrases in English using various ciphers.
A cipher is an algorithm or mathematical process used to encrypt and decrypt data. It transforms a readable message into an unreadable format to ensure that only authorized users can read the original information.
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Bacon's cipher,
Enigma machine,
The Gold Bug,
ROT13,
and
ROT18
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| Items on other pages: |
Semaphore flags,
signal flags,
tactile systems (Braille & Moon Type),
and
technology (like QR Codes, barcodes, punched cards, and Morse Code)
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was an English philosopher and statesman. Here are the Four Essential Travel Phrases in the cipher Bacon devised in 1605:
![[English using Francis Bacon's cipher]](alt_bacon_english1.bmp)
Cipher information at Wikipedia
Cipher tools are available at many sites like Boxentriq.com, CacheSleuth.com, Cryptii.com, and DCode.fr
![[Enigma machine]](tech_enigma1.gif) |
The Enigma was a cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, most notoriously by Germany during World War II. |
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Here are the Four Essential Travel Phrases as an encrypted message using an initial rotor position of MMW: 1) ZBVZAXDNCUHTJ2) PZHNJGJDANUFNAX 3) OGPKSHEAZTIEK 4) WBKHRUUDTLJMVECTH |
The Gold Bug cipher was included in an 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe called The Gold-Bug. The story includes the cipher and a description of how to solve simple substitution ciphers.
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![[Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold-Bug]](alt_gold_bug_english1.jpg) |
Cipher information at Wikipedia and CipherMachineSandCryptology.com
Cipher tools are available at many sites like CacheSleuth.com, Rumkin.com, and DCode.fr
ROT13 started in the net.jokes newsgroup in the early 1980s. It was a way to voluntarily hide jokes that some readers might find offensive or to obscure the punchline of a joke to keep it from being read too soon.
It's a simple Caesar cipher that replaces each letter with the letter thirteen places down the alphabet ("ROTate by 13 places" or ROT-13).
1) Jurer vf zl ebbz?Cipher information at Wikipedia
ROT18 is a combination of ROT13 (alphabetic) and ROT5 (numeric) substitution ciphers.
6) Jurer vf zl ebbz?Cipher information at Wikipedia
Cipher tools are available at many sites like AToZMath.com, FreeToolsCorner.com, Boxentriq.com, DEncode.com, and DCode.fr
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| The four essential travel phrases in English: 1) Where is my room? 2) Where is the beach? 3) Where is the bar? 4) Don't touch me there! |
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