{"id":4094,"date":"2018-12-04T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"podlove-2018-12-03t19:45:37+00:00-c00d80f4811a449"},"modified":"2018-12-05T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:05:40","slug":"episode-18-the-dancing-men","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/2018\/12\/04\/episode-18-the-dancing-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 18 &#8211; The Dancing Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div class=\"pwp4-wrapper intrinsic-ignore\" id=\"podlovewebplayer_1373bf7938695cbec4f71df3c245a12eaaaa9c6a\" data-episode=\"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/2018\/12\/04\/episode-18-the-dancing-men\/?podlove_action=pwp4_config\"><audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\">\n  <source src=\"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/podlove\/file\/59\/s\/webplayer\/c\/website\/otp018.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/>\n<\/audio><\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\n<p>by Leah Strickland<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/files\/2018\/12\/Danc-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4095\" src=\"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/files\/2018\/12\/Danc-01-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/files\/2018\/12\/Danc-01-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/files\/2018\/12\/Danc-01.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>The 1903 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short story &#8220;Sherlock Holmes and the Dancing Men&#8221; features an unusual cipher. In this podcast, I give a summary of the story, so listeners will understand why Sherlock solving the puzzle is important. I then explain how Sherlock was able to solve the Dancing Men cipher. He was able to solve it by using frequency analysis. I go on to explain how Sherlock solving this cipher is unrealistic because of more messages needed to be sent for frequency analysis to be more accurate. I then talk about how the dancing men cipher is similar to the Gold Bug cipher created by Edgar Allan Poe. I then describe some similarities between the two authors and their ciphers. I finish off my podcast by giving an example of popular cryptography in modern times.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank Xiaoyu Dong and Xin Yi Zhang for helping me edit my script.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geocachingtoolbox.com\/index.php?page=dancingMen\">https:\/\/www.geocachingtoolbox.com\/index.php?page=dancingMen<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthurconandoyle.com\/biography.html\">https:\/\/www.arthurconandoyle.com\/biography.html<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/illuminations.nctm.org\/uploadedFiles\/Content\/Lessons\/Resources\/9-12\/Caesar-DancingMen.pdf\">https:\/\/illuminations.nctm.org\/uploadedFiles\/Content\/Lessons\/Resources\/9-12\/Caesar-DancingMen.pdf<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/substitution-cipher\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/substitution-cipher<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/literature.stackexchange.com\/questions\/446\/how-much-did-forensic-science-at-the-time-of-sherlock-holmes-publication-influe\">https:\/\/literature.stackexchange.com\/questions\/446\/how-much-did-forensic-science-at-the-time-of-sherlock-holmes-publication-influe<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Illustration by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Adventure_of_the_Dancing_Men#\/media\/File:Danc-01.jpg\">Sidney Paget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes\/4094\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}