TheCodeBreakers
Pantagruel satirizes the whole business of unearthing secret writings.
Shakespeare mentions interception, if not cryptanalysis, in Henry V, but
it was Edgar Allan Poe in "The Gold-Bug" who first used cryptology as a
central element. The tale not only offers one of the clearest expositions of
the solution of a secret message, but the result of that solution—the
discovery of a hidden treasure—renewed mystical vibrations between
cryptology and magic, and reglamorized cryptology. Jules Verne, too,
heightened the suspense of several of his futuristic novels with the
mystery of secret writing.
But the greatest feat of fictional cryptanalysis was performed,
naturally enough, by the greatest of fictional detectives. Sherlock
Holmes's thorough knowledge of the subject becomes manifest in his
"Adventure of the Dancing Men." The dancing men—little stick figures
with their arms and legs in various positions—constitute the cipher
symbols
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