TheCodeBreakers
Secret societies have long used ciphers. The Free and
Accepted Masons monopolized the antique pigpen cipher to such an
extent that it is often called the Freemasons' cipher. Its most common
modern form is this:
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Thus Scottish rite would be enciphered These symbols
stand out here and there in the printed manuals of Masonry; they
comprise part of the mixture of cryptography, abbreviation, and rebus
with which the Masons diguise their secret rituals. In the postbellum
South, the Knights of the Golden Circle, a kind of Ku Klux Klan, used
essentially the same cipher for their occasional cor-
| respondences.
More recently, Alfred C. Kinsey and his associates
| encoded the replies of interviewees about their sexual habits for
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Only four persons on the staff of
the Institute for Sex Research could read the code, which recorded the
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