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Hints & Tricks for Cryptogram Solution

Some common hints and tricks are employed to make cryptogram solution so much easier. Uncle Vinnys. Hints include finding T...

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The Caesar cipher. The Caesar cipher is a shift cipher, one of the simplest forms of encryption in which each letter of the message is replaced by a letter a certain number of positions down in the alphabet.
Cryptography 101: Basic solving techniques for substitution ciphers
  1. Scan through the cipher, looking for single-letter words. ...
  2. Count how many times each symbol appears in the puzzle. ...
  3. Pencil in your guesses over the ciphertext. ...
  4. Look for apostrophes. ...
  5. Look for repeating letter patterns.
Substitution ciphers work by creating a disordered alphabet, allowing you to substitute letters for other letters. For a straightforward substitution cipher, simply use the alphabet backwards, so that “a” becomes “z,” “b” becomes “y,” “c” becomes “x,” and so on.
AES ‍ One of the hardest codes to crack is arguably the US government's Advanced Encryption Standard (aka Rijndael or AES) which the Americans use to protect top-secret information. AES is considered unbreakable by even the most sophisticated hackers.
AES 256-bit encryption is the strongest and most robust encryption standard that is commercially available today. While it is theoretically true that AES 256-bit encryption is harder to crack than AES 128-bit encryption, AES 128-bit encryption has never been cracked.