Subj : Re: Hiding Codes in Plain Sight Socialist Style
To   : warmfuzzy
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Mar 09 2019 07:52:00

-=> warmfuzzy wrote to All <=-

 wa> Several years back I was travelling and stopped by a Chapters bookstore
 wa> in the Canadian capital.  I found a few socialist magazines and picked
 wa> them up to read their rubbish.  It was shortly after picking these up
 wa> that I noticed something peculiar.  At the bottom of the magazine pages
 wa> there were lines and dots that seemed non-random.  On the bottom of
 wa> each page was a non-random pair of lines short-mid- and long that
 wa> appeared to code for something that the recipients would be able to
 wa> decode yet not be obvious to the casual reader.

There was an interesting example of hiding in plain sight in the BBSC
series Sherlock - as a code, they used two numbers to represent words.
Sherlock surmised that it was a cipher where both parties had a public key.
It turned out they were using a common book, Time Out London, and the
numbers referred to page numbers and word occurences on the page. An
interesting way of getting information to another party without arousing
suspicion, since anyone would have a copy of that book anyway.

How about a Gideon bible as a cipher base?  :)






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