All 18 Uses of
cipher
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Part of it looks like a numeric cipher.†
Chpt 8 *
- At the age of twelve, Sophie could finish the Le Monde crossword without any help, and her grandfather graduated her to crosswords in English, mathematical puzzles, and substitution ciphers.†
Chpt 15-16
- Langdon had once worked on a series of Baconian manuscripts that contained epigraphical ciphers in which certain lines of code were clues as to how to decipher the other lines.†
Chpt 19-20
- Many great minds in history had invented cryptologic solutions to the challenge of data protection: Julius Caesar devised a code-writing scheme called the Caesar Box; Mary, Queen of Scots created a transposition cipher and sent secret communiqués from prison; and the brilliant Arab scientist Abu Yusuf Ismail al-Kindi protected his secrets with an ingeniously conceived polyalphabetic substitution cipher.†
Chpt 47-48
- Many great minds in history had invented cryptologic solutions to the challenge of data protection: Julius Caesar devised a code-writing scheme called the Caesar Box; Mary, Queen of Scots created a transposition cipher and sent secret communiqués from prison; and the brilliant Arab scientist Abu Yusuf Ismail al-Kindi protected his secrets with an ingeniously conceived polyalphabetic substitution cipher.†
Chpt 47-48
- The Atbash Cipher is one of the oldest codes known to man.†
Chpt 71-72
- The Atbash Cipher had indeed been part of Sophie's early cryptology training.†
Chpt 71-72
- The cipher dated back to 500 B.C. and was now used as a classroom example of a basic rotational substitution scheme.†
Chpt 71-72
- A common form of Jewish cryptogram, the Atbash Cipher was a simple substitution code based on the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet.†
Chpt 71-72
- The Priory certainly would include the Atbash Cipher as part of their teachings.†
Chpt 71-72
- "The only problem," Langdon said, "is that we don't have anything on which to apply the cipher."†
Chpt 71-72
- My dear, this is where the Atbash Cipher comes into play†
Chpt 75-76
- It works for all reflectional substitution ciphers, including the Atbash.†
Chpt 77-78
- Looking at Sophie's substitution matrix, Langdon felt a rising thrill that he imagined must have rivaled the thrill felt by early scholars when they first used the Atbash Cipher to decrypt the now famous Mystery of Sheshach.†
Chpt 77-78
- Finally, a scholar applied the Atbash Cipher to the word, and his results were mind-numbing.†
Chpt 77-78
- The cipher revealed that Sheshach was in fact a code word for another very well-known city.†
Chpt 77-78
- And the Atbash Cipher reveals…†
Chpt 77-78
- Each block was carved with a symbol, seemingly at random, creating a cipher of unfathomable proportion.†
Chpt 103-104
Definition:
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(cipher as in: a secret cipher) a secret way to write a disguised message; or such a message; or the act of writing such a message; or a key used to disguise such a message