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"The Gold Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story was first published in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper in June 1843 after Poe had won a competition held by the paper, receiving a prize of US$100. This article is in need of attention. ...
This daguerreotype of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40. ...
1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The Gold Bug is a story of a strange man who seemingly goes mad after finding and being bitten by a bug thought to be made of pure gold. He notifies his closest friend, the narrator, telling him to immediately come visit where he lives and then notifies the narrator upon arrival that they are embarking upon a search for lost treasure. After much doubt on behalf of the narrator, the once-seemingly insane man does find a treasure, buried by the infamous pirate "Cap'n Teedge," that is estimated by the narrator to be worth about fourteen million dollars. Once the treasure is safely secured, the man goes into an elaborate explanation of how he knew about the treasure's location, based on a set of occurrences that happened after the discovery of the gold bug. Howard Pyles painting of Kidd and his ship, the Adventure Galley, in a New York City harbor. ...
The story involves cryptography with a detailed description of a method for solving a simple substitution cipher using letter frequencies. The cryptogram was: The Enigma machine, used by Germany in World War II, implemented a complex cipher to protect sensitive communications. ...
Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, hidden, and analýein, to loosen or to untie) is the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information, without access to the secret information which is normally required to do so. ...
In cryptography, a substitution cipher is a method of encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with ciphertext according to a regular system; the units may be single letters (the most common), pairs of letters, triplets of letters, mixtures of the above, and so forth. ...
In mathematics, physics and signal processing, frequency analysis is a method to decompose a function, wave, or signal into its frequency components so that it is possible to have the frequency spectrum. ...
A cryptogram is a type of word puzzle popularly printed in some newspapers and magazines. ...
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