Tool to decrypt/encrypt Bacon automatically. Bacon cipher uses a biliteral substitution alphabet which replace a character with a group of 5 formed with two letters, generally A and B.
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Tag(s) : Substitution Cipher
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Tool to decrypt/encrypt Bacon automatically. Bacon cipher uses a biliteral substitution alphabet which replace a character with a group of 5 formed with two letters, generally A and B.
Baconian encryption uses a substitution alphabet based on 2 letters (biliterary, usually A and B)
A | AAAAA | B | AAAAB |
---|---|---|---|
C | AAABA | D | AAABB |
E | AABAA | F | AABAB |
G | AABBA | H | AABBB |
I=J | ABAAA | K | ABAAB |
L | ABABA | M | ABABB |
N | ABBAA | O | ABBAB |
P | ABBBA | Q | ABBBB |
R | BAAAA | S | BAAAB |
T | BAABA | U=V | BAABB |
W | BABAA | X | BABAB |
Y | BABBA | Z | BABBB |
Example: DCODE is encrypted AAABB,AAABA,ABBAB,AAABB,AABAA
In this original alphabet, the letter V does not exist, it is replaced by U, likewise the letter J does not exist, it is replaced by I.
Another bacon's alphabet is sometimes preferred, more complete, it uses a unique code for each letter:
A | AAAAA | B | AAAAB |
---|---|---|---|
C | AAABA | D | AAABB |
E | AABAA | F | AABAB |
G | AABBA | H | AABBB |
I | ABAAA | J | ABAAB |
K | ABABA | L | ABABB |
M | ABBAA | N | ABBAB |
O | ABBBA | P | ABBBB |
Q | BAAAA | R | BAAAB |
S | BAABA | T | BAABB |
U | BABAA | V | BABAB |
W | BABBA | X | BABBB |
Y | BBAAA | Z | BBAAB |
Baconian decryption is a substitution with the biliteral alphabet of Bacon.
Example: AAABB AAABA ABBAB AAABB AABAA is equivalent to DCODE.
The ciphered message is a biliterary code (binary with 2 letters), and maybe spaces every 5 characters.
All references to Françis Bacon (and its homonyms), Novum organum, or to bacon slices (pork, larding, smocked, salted, etc.) are clues.
The letters A and B can be replaced by others characters, such as 0 and 1, to transform the message into binary format.
Sometimes the letters o and l are used: lolol loolo lolol
Francis Bacon first described it around 1605
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