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The cryptograph occurs as nature and severity of word puzzle popularly printed in a select few newspapers & magazines. The short piece of text is encrypted with a elementary substitution cipher in which each letter is replaced by the different letter. To solve a puzzle, a single must recoup a plaintext. This is ordinarily handle frequency analysis and by recognizing letter patterns within words. A Cryptograph is likewise a title of the periodical publication of the American Cryptogram Association (ACA), which contains a big total of cryptological puzzles.

A word "Cryptogram" is another time utilized around cryptography in a other general feel, as a equivalent word for "ciphertext".

Bruce Schneier's monthly newssheet in computer security and cryptography is called a Crypto-Secret writing. These are freely available two as an electronic mailing list and on Schneier's portable website.

American Cryptogram Association: Crypto Drop Box
Sample journal issue, links to member homepages, subject-related graphics, subscription information, and resources.

Professor Payne's World of Cryptograms
Interactive browser-based solver. Also contains program to generate cryptograms from a user-submitted quotation.

Crypto Challenge
Free Windows-based software for solving. Uses quotations, humorous sayings, and scriptures. Extras available for a nominal charge. Includes screen shots. Keeps track of which letters are in play. Counts the frequency of each letter. Word lookup table.

CryptaGram
Offers download of limited version solver software. Extended version available for purchase. Has 14 quote topics, three levels of difficulty, and helpers. [Windows 95/98]

OneAcross - Cryptograms
Solving tool through web browser. Allows entry of a phrase, or selection from "easy, medium, or hard" quotations taken from the Linux fortune collection. Also features the ability to send cryptogram-encoded messages via email.

Cryptogrammaton
Ancient Greek mythological themes. Solutions listed separately, along with stories about the mythical characters in the puzzle.

Cryptogram Solver Source Code
Source code archive with several programs to automatically solve puzzles. Also includes "crypo-quote" of the day.

Puzz.com: Cryptograms
Ten problems with solutions taken from famous sayings, adages, and proverbs. By William F. Bultas.

CRpuzzles
Collection with browser-based solver tool. Includes hints. After deciphering the hidden quotation, solvers must derive the author's name from the cipher-quote letter pairs to complete their puzzle task. [Requires Java]

Literary Cryptograms
Collection based on literary passages, both general and with specific sets from William Cowper, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Plato's Phaedrus. Includes browser-based solution and solving instructions.