CRYPTOGRAPHY.

Evening Star, Issue 3331, 23 October 1873, Page 3

CRYPTOGRAPHY.

To the Editor. Sib, —“ A Subscriber” still fails to carry out the conditions I require before giving the solution of his puzzle, and until iheaeare conceded, 1 again reiterate I must decline in any way sending my interpretation of it. One thing, however, occurred in his remarks which 1 cannot allow to pass unnoticed, viz., that in cypher writing, “ divisions into words are not necessarily adopted.” That this argument is completely erroneous is patent to any one who may take the trouble of placing a number of words together, and then disconnecting them. It would then be found that in every instance a single letter or two not properly conjoined would materially alter the reading of it, whilst in many cases it would render null and void the original meaning of the passage. It is therefore to prevent the liability of error occurring that all cryptographic communications are sent in words instead of sentences. Yet another mistake : “ A Subscriber” says he will send yon the answer, &c. From my solution of the enigma, I think it is the meaning of the puzzle, and not the answer to it that is at present required. I am, &c., Henry Lynch, Jun., Bellringers’ Troupe. Dunedin, October 23.