Secret Code Essay

There are a lot of secrets of the world that people do not know of. Because of war and enemies, there has always been a need to communicate with allies in secret. The usage of secret messages has helped militaries transport messages that are unknown to their enemies. Now in today’s world the military is not the only people who used secret messages, to send to one another, and it has become more common to use secret code, to ensure only certain people know something. Secret messages can be created by using secret writing, codes, and ciphers. Secreting writing is any way of written communication, used in order to disguise written text. Now sometimes ciphers and codes are mistaken for the definition of secret writing, but they hide the meaning …show more content…
Now originally the military used this codes to send secret messages without their enemies being able to detect the message, but in today’s society the military is not the only people who use this method. Many companies and businesses use this same method, in order for their competition to be unaware of what they are saying. To the average person ciphers and codes may seem difficult, but once one learns the technique it is fairly simple to do. Now codes and ciphers are two different things, but can be used simultaneously. On the one hand, a secret code is when every word or phrase in one’s message is traded by another word, phrase, or series of symbols, while on the other hand, a cipher is a when every letter in one’s message is substituted by another letter or symbol. With both codes and ciphers there are methods one must do in order to successfully create the two. Both can be used together, to make the message more difficult to …show more content…
They simply mix up letters of a message. In order to use ciphers an individual must know the algorithm/method used to convert the plaintext, the key used with the algorithm to allow the plaintext to be both encrypted and decrypted, and the period of time during which the key is effective. Within ciphers it can be broken down into two categories which are substitution (replaces letters in plaintext with other symbols or letters, keeping the sequence in which the symbols are the same) and transposition (keep all the original letters unbroken, but mix up the order). Both can be used together to make the cipher harder to decrypt by others. Common types of ciphers include: alphabet ciphers, math based ciphers, transposing or substituting letters, Morse code,