Reply To: Yet another 10B post
If the ADFGVX cipher wasn’t invented until 1918, then it can’t be that – so why is 10.8 alluding to it. Also after splitting the text into chunks of 21, i cant seem to rearrange them in the correct way, am i missing something?
To be clear, just because a cipher was actually invented a bit later doesn’t mean we wouldn’t use it. The very first National Cipher Challenge featured a simplified version of the Enigma machine. The rule is broadly that if our protagonists could reasonably have invented a cipher of that form, then they might have done. But to be equally clear we usually change things a bit to keep them interesting (and doable, we hope!) Harry