Posts Tagged ‘Symmetric Encryption’

Have you seen a code similar to this before?

An interesting example from real life is the stone of James Leeson, who died in 1792. For a long time, the box-and-dot code at the top of the stone (Figure 1) remained a mystery for the public, but the secret was revealed as Meyer Berger explained in his NY Times column in the 1950s, it was finally decrypted. It says: “Remember death”. It was a Masonic cipher.

Figure 1: Stone of James Leeson 1

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