During the mid-to-late 1930s Walter Benjamin and Gershom
Sholom, the latter still living in Germany, developed a code system which
enabled them to communicate by mail while concealing their message from the
police. This code operates as follows: A base message is written. This message
may be any number of words long. A number n is produced which contains the same
number of digits as there are words in the message. Each word is therewith
paired with a digit n[x] >= 0. To encode the message, a new intelligible
message is produced in the cracks of the previous message. Thus, for each word
place n[x] new words before each word, keeping in mind that the new message
must make sense.
Benjamin and Sholom did not specify the placement of punctuation, therefore,
punctuation is at the discretion of the encoder. Neither did they propose how
the code number was to be produced; therefore, it must also be left to the
encoder to produce such an operation. It is conceivable that this operation may
be nested any number of times to expand a single sentence into an entire text
and conceal multiple messages within a single, larger corpus.
And example:
BASE: To be or not to be that is the question.
[Number must be 10 digits long.] 1463114631
[this number is constructed by the author for the sake of this demonstration
and has no hidden mechanism, but your's could!]
Ship to shore communications could not be made today. Forget not to be whatever
is needed, so that you may definitely arrive on time. Is there anyone with the
last question?
