[ Log On ]
  • Home
  • Tst
  • Cha
  • Enc
  • Code
  • IP
  • Fun
  • Sub
  • DigF
  • Cis
  • Com
  • Db
  • About
  • Netsim
  • Big Data

Goldbug cipher

ID: 877210 score:
0

The Gold-Bug cipher has included in a short story by Edgar Allan Poe and which was published in 1843. It tells the tail of William Legrand and how he was bitten by a gold-colored bug. The mapping is:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
52-†81346,709*‡.$();?¶]¢:[
Cipher bit streamAnswer (Plain text)Result
0‡*†‡*
25*5*5

Gold Bug cipher

The Gold-Bug cipher has included in a short story by Edgar Allan Poe and which was published in 1843. It tells the tail of William Legrand and how he was bitten by a gold-colored bug. The mapping is:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
52-†81346,709*‡.$();?¶]¢:[

In the book he writes:

Here Legrand, having re-heated the parchment, submitted it to my inspection. The following characters were rudely traced, in a red tint, between the death's-head and the goat:

53‡‡†305))6*;4826)4‡.)4‡);806*;48†8¶60))85;1‡(;:‡*8†83(88)5*†;
46(;88*96*?;8)*‡(;485);5*†2:*‡(;4956*2(5*—4)8¶8*;4069285);)6†8
)4‡‡;1(‡9;48081;8:8‡1;48†85;4)485†528806*81(‡9;48;(88;4(‡?
34;48)4‡;161;:188;‡?;

This is translated as:

5 - A
3‡‡†   - good
305))  - glass
6*     - in
;48    - the