Writing and Printing

Bacon's cipher

Bacon's cipher or the Baconian cipher is a method of steganographic message encoding devised by Francis Bacon in 1605. In steganography, a message is concealed in the presentation of text, rather than its content. Baconian ciphers are categorized as both a substitution cipher (in plain code) and a concealment cipher (using the two typefaces).

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See also

• ▸History of Nahuatl
• ▸Betel nut chewing
• ▸Acehnese orthography

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