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parish of Iver near Uxbridge, England, to note on January 17, 1767, the
marriage of 188 b58y48. Why Ann Bunyon's name should be veiled while
her husband's was left in clear remains unknown.
In two spirals on a minute of a letter of September 14, 1750, Gabriel
Cramer, a teacher of mathematics at the I Calvin Academy in Geneva,
who corresponded with the most learned men of his time, inscribed two
cipher messages. Simple columnar transpositions, they counseled:
"The oracle tells thee to fear nothing; thou art permitted to hope for
everything; dare boldly; banish fear; thou canst surely give thyself over to
joy." Cramer almost certainly •composed the messages only for his own
pleasure or en-Icouragement, perhaps choosing the spiral because it
sym-Jbolized unrolling time and so a future to which he may have looked
forward.
Cryptography has protected not only personal secrets, but spiritual
ones as well. Secret societies have long used ciphers
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