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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:30:01 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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   @guerrillarain A Caesar Cypher is the easy-but-hard-enough go-to for this in games and a number of books

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher
   https://www.dcode.fr/caesar-cipher

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     lord goth of doom 🥀 (guerrillarain@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:30:03 JST lord goth of doom 🥀

     Hey cryptography enthusiasts, I'm looking for a (relatively easy) cipher to use in the (young adult/teen) book I'm working on. Essentially I'm trying to hide messages (or have hidden dialogue), but it cannot use an alternate font.

     For the first draft, I just put everything in Wingdings, but Wingdings isn't compatible with epub (or perhaps, Kindle, idk which and it doesn't really matter). As a result, readers of the ebook wouldn't be able to parttake in the decoding mystery.

     Which got me thinking about using a cipher instead, keeping the dialogue in the Latin alphabet. I'm, however, NOT a cryptography person, I don't know even know where to get started, and my book is due....... in a few weeks, so I don't have 6 months to learn. 😭