More Ciphers

Musical Cipher

Consider the Solfa Cipher that encodes text into a musical notation. The bottom of the page has details on how the encoding works.

• Do you think this makes the cipher more challenging to decode? Why, or why not?

Other Ciphers

Consider the ciphers at this site and choose a few to investigate.

• What aspect of the encoding algorithm do you think makes any of these ciphers stronger than the ones we've considered so far?

• Choose one cipher and see if you can write an algorithm for it.