Okay, I’m finally learning how to do some of these codes. I bought a book and I started practicing and some easy stuff. First of all, I see that there is a difference between a code and a cipher. I thought they were the same. A code is when a word is substituted for another word, a number, or anything else. A cipher is when a letter is substituted by something. Or at least I think that’s it. So Washington’s Culper Code book is literally a book full of the numbers that are used as code for a word. I started working on that one but it’s a little tedious.

Ciphers are a little harder to learn. Caesar cipher’s seem to be the easiest. The entire alphabet is just shifted by a number. So if the shift was 10, A would become J, B would become K, and so on. I don’t see anything that easy so far. There is also Atbash, where the first and last letters of the alphabet are mirrored. So A would be Z, B would be Y. Let me try one.

Ollp zg nv, R nzwv z xrksvi! Zohl, R dzmgvw gl pvvk gsrh hvxivg, yfg R gsrmp hlnvlmv szxpvw rmgl nb dvyxzn. R wrwm’g dzmg gl hzb rg rm gsv klhg yvxzfhv nb nln szh yvvm ivzwrmt rg. R droo ovg blf pmld ru R ulfmw lfg nliv, yfg uli mld gsviv’h gzkv levi rg.

-Veritas