13 Abbreviation ciphers
The message depicted in Figure 13-1 is an example presented in the 1931 book The Masonic Conservators by Ray V. Denslow.1 Each letter in the square is the starting letter of a word, and the resulting message should be read column-wise. For example, the first column stands for the following sentence: THE DEGREE OF ENTERED APPRENTICE IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS.
Figure 13-1: When read column-wise, each letter of this message stands for the first letter of a word.
Any system that encodes a text in such a way is referred ...
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