Ancient Coding - A Little (Double) Drabble Do Ya! - May 22nd

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

After a long search of the defeated Thrush’s office, the only thing Napoleon found that caught his attention was a long strip of paper. It had a random assortment of letters written along it.

“What do you think of this?” he asked his partner. “Mark and April found two of these last week.”

Having only just returned from Greece, Illya was slightly out of the loop, but he instantly recognised the paper for what it was. During his downtime in Athens, he’d spent time in museums; where he had seen one.

“It’s a Scytale,” he told Napoleon. “There should be a rod with it.”

Napoleon opened the drawer in which he’d found the paper. Sure enough, he found a hexagonal rod. He handed it, and the paper strip, to Illya. The Russian carefully wound the strip around the wood and showed Solo the result. The meaningless letters had magically become words. The design of the rod meant that six lines containing eight letters could be ciphered. All that was needed was to work out where the spaces would go.

“Thrush have returned to ancient methods,” said Illya.

“Let’s hope they don’t realise too quickly that we have their new secret.”

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Comments

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

The BBC are very stringent with their copyright, so the stuff they have on YouTube usually doesn't play in the states. However, I've found a load of vimeo.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

It's available here but on I'd have to subscribe and pay for the carrier. I can barely afford what I have now. I did see a few episodes on You Tube though.