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Cryptogram is derived from cryptography which deals with the study of
encryption and decryption in Computer Science. In start cryptogram was
not used as entertainment but now they are published in newspaper and
magazines for entertainment. A Cryptogram is a message encrypted in
codes. Often each letter or symbol in the code represents another letter
of the alphabet. Most cryptograms are codes representing texts,
quotations, mottoes, poems, proverbs, and maxims. Sometimes, the source
author is indicated as a clue to the puzzle. |
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HISTORY : |
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Cryptograms were not first used as
entertainment, but in the Spartan military in 5th century B.C. this code
consisted of a staff around which a strip of paper was wrapped without
overlapping. A message was written on the paper, which was then
unwrapped and sent on its way. The message could only be correctly
decoded with the right diameter of stick. Julius Caesar invented the
first substitution cypher, one which still bears his name.
The Cryptogram was first used for entertainment during the Middle Ages
by monks with spare time. A manuscript found at Bamberg states that
Irish visitors to the court of Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad (died 844), king
of Gwynedd in Wales were given a cryptogram which could only be solved
by transposing the letters from Latin into Greek. Around the 13th
century, the English monk Roger Bacon wrote a book in which he listed
seven cipher methods, and stated that "a man is crazy who writes a
secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar".
During the Rennaisance, cryptograms were used to political ends.
History of Cryptogram has been taken from
wikipedia.org |
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