To en code a mes sage e ach letter of the pla int ext is replaced b y a grou p of fi ve o f the l ette rs 'A' or 'B'.
The word 'steganography', encoded with quotation marks, where standard text represents "typeface 1" and text in boldface represents "typeface 2": The false message can be on any topic and thus can distract a person seeking to find the real message. This was published as an illustrated plate in his De Augmentis Scientiarum (The Advancement of Learning).īecause any message of the right length can be used to carry the encoding, the secret message is effectively hidden in plain sight. The Baconian alphabet is then used to recover the original message.Īny method of writing the message that allows two distinct representations for each character can be used for the Bacon Cipher.īacon himself prepared a Biliteral Alphabet for handwritten capital and small letters with each having two alternative forms, one to be used as A and the other as B. Each "typeface 1" letter in the false message is replaced with an A and each "typeface 2" letter is replaced with a B. To decode the message, the reverse method is applied. Then each letter of the false message must be presented in the appropriate typeface, according to whether it stands for an A or a B. After preparing a false message with the same number of letters as all of the As and Bs in the real, secret message, two typefaces are chosen, one to represent As and the other Bs. The writer must make use of two different typefaces for this cipher.
In other words, I, J, U and V each have their own pattern in this variant: This replacement is a 5-bit binary encoding and is done according to the alphabet of the Baconian cipher (from the Latin Alphabet), shown below:Ī second version of Bacon's cipher uses a unique code for each letter. To encode a message, each letter of the plaintext is replaced by a group of five of the letters 'A' or 'B'. A message is concealed in the presentation of text, rather than its content. Bacon's cipher or the Baconian cipher is a method of steganographic message encoding devised by Francis Bacon in 1605.
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