Hiya!
I’ve been looking madly around for a place to ask, where could I post a (question) post related to ciphering languages.
There’s one I have been using and I’d like to try kickstart this topic genre somewhere (I’m unsure about making a whole community about it).
solrize@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We have c/encryption (I’m one of its mods) which is very quiet, so we could use some activity there.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Thanks. I looked for a lot of communities when I first joined, but it’s a lot of work to periodically look for all my interests again and if they do exist check by post count.
Damaskox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How often should I post these?
solrize@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Those kinds of puzzles? Hmm, it looks like you got some response at !encryption and I’m glad to see some activity there, but in general it’s intended to be more about modern, computer-based cryptography. You might like to read “The Code Book” by Simon Singh which is a general introduction to the subject, starting with old fashioned hand ciphers like the one you posted, and moving up through the modern stuff. “The Codebreakers” by David Kahn is a wonderful history-of-cryptography book, mostly about the pre-WW2 era. And the greatest crypto story ever told is the WW2 Enigma attack, which probably shortened the war by years. “Battle of Wits” by Stephen Budiansky is a good book about that. Kahn’s book came out in the 1960s when the Enigma story was still classified. There was a later edition where a brief mention was added, but it didn’t say much.