feuling@astroatc.UUCP (Bob Marley) (04/13/91)
The Ancient Ogam Cipher: Before the year one, in what is now England,
the ruling people were the Celts. The Celts invented a symbol
substitution cipher of straight lines called ogams. Some of the ogam
writing might have been used for everyday messages -- Ye olde cakes
are cooking -- but some messages were carved on stone monuments that
are still standing today.
The Roman alphabet, which the Celts used, has most, but not all, of the
letters of our alphabet.
The Modern Ogam Cipher: The Celts' method of using different kinds of
straight lines above and below a center line makes a good cipher with
our alphabet today. To make the Ogam Cipher more modern and easier to
encode and decode, the cipher has been put in alphabetical order and
in the groups of five lines.
Below is Postscript code to print both the Ancient and Modern Ogam Ciphers.
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Happy Ciphering!