Layer Your Codes For Double Security

### Layer Your Codes For Double Security

Make Your Own · Layer It

You built a clever keyword cipher, but there is a catch. A determined snooper with enough time can still crack a basic code just by hunting for common letters. To truly protect your secrets and buy yourself time, you need to level up.

Enter superencipherment, a very long word for a very smart trick: layering your codes. Instead of encrypting your secret note just once, you scramble it, and then you scramble that new message a second time.

First, run your plaintext through your keyword alphabet. Then, take that gibberish and run it through a shift cipher, sliding every letter down three spaces. The letter "E" might turn into "J", and then morph into "M".

A snooper now has to beat two puzzles at once! Just remember to use completely different rules for each layer. If you encrypt a note twice with the exact same method, mathematically, you might even accidentally decrypt it!

The MIDNIGHT Alphabet
Secret alphabet
plainABCDEFGHIJKLM
secretMIDNGHTABCEFJ
plainNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
secretKLOPQRSUVWXYZ
message
DOUBLE THE SECRET
secret
NLUIFG SAG RGDQGS
A second keyword, MIDNIGHT, makes a brand-new secret alphabet. Swap keys often to stay ahead of crackers.