The cipher is believed to be an ancient cipher and is said to have originated with the Hebrew religios leader. There is evidence that suggests that the Knights Templar utilized a pig-pen cipher during the Christian Crusades. It was also used by someone in the 16th century with the goal to "save his personal notes." Sometimes, you can still see it today on gravestones. Basically, the cypher goes a long way back in time, and is clearly a big part of history.
The PigPen cipher is a gemoetric substitution cipher which changes letters into symbols from grids, other people call it the "tic-tac-toe cipher" [cipher] https://crypto.interactive-maths.com/pigpen-cipher.html
How complex is it?
(How pigpen is writen)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5XRTcLYy40]
with the source of this lovely video... i learned how to write in pigpen in just two minutes! The compexility wasnt hard to understand at all. Once you got the hang of it, it seemed so easy. But for anyone else who wouldnt know this, i could imagine how hard it would be for them. From the looks of it, it just looks like a 5 year old tried making a new language.
How would you attempt to decode this message if you didn't have a key
i dont see how anyone in the 18th century could decode this without a key. its repetitive in its form with just the add on with the dots. i found a good website that can decode modern day use of pigpen coding.
(pigpen decoder)[https://www.dcode.fr/pigpen-cipher]
How easy would it be to decode pigpen?
The easiest website to use to decode pigpen is dcode.fr !
the websites layout has all the letters in alpabetical order along with a key of the coding. It also has a feature where you can reverse the code. you can put regular english and turn it into pigpen code.
FUN FACT
you can buy a pigpen decoder RING on amazon for only 20 bucks!
it might be a good christmas present for ms nelson so heres the link
The pigpen code was most comonly used in the 18th century during the American Civil War. It is a huge part of the Freemasons' history and is still seen on some gravestones to this day. I think it stopped being used because it eventually became more popular and so hiding secret messages was harder and harder so people moved on to another code.
