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