Crytog* (for Cryptog*)

If a bibliographic record in your catalogue has enough typos, it might look like an example of cryptography. Once used primarily in wartime or in letters swapped in class by childhood best friends, encrypting data is now commonplace online.

Cryptography involves creating (and cracking) secret codes to hide messages. It's been called the art of hiding information—and so a cryptographer is perhaps the opposite of a librarian.

Try your hand at the simple cryptogram below. Each letter in this quotation is replaced with another. To get you started, O is replaced by H.

DH YTT Y ILVGYGA DH Y OHCES LE DH RLBS DOYD OHCES Y EHCI
- ULUSGH

Check back tomorrow for the answer!

Leanne Olson

(Photo of a coding machine from the US National Cryptologic Museum taken from Wikimedia Commons.)