Gold Bug

A substitution cipher from an Edgar Allan Poe short story.

Published in 1843, The Gold-Bug is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a gentleman who was bitten by a gold-colored bug and follows a secret message that leads to buried treasure.

The “Gold Bug” cipher never had symbols for J, K, Q, W, X, and Z. For those, I decided upon symbols based on others that I saw in the code (there was a ] but not a [ symbol) and what I saw in pictures of old typewriters. Apparently, I made good choices, because this was later copied by dCode.

Examples:

- From the short story.
- Added spaces between words and a little punctuation.