Editing Bacon's cipher (section)

{{short description|Steganography method}}
[[File:FBacon alfa1.jpg|thumb|Image of Bacon's cipher.]]
'''Bacon's cipher''' or the '''Baconian cipher''' is a method of [[steganography|steganographic]] message encoding devised by [[Francis Bacon]] in 1605.<ref name="Bacon_1605">{{cite book |author-last=Bacon |author-first=Francis |author-link=Francis Bacon |title=The Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Humane |year=1605}}</ref><ref name="Bacon_1640">{{cite book |author-last=Bacon |author-first=Francis |author-link=Francis Bacon |title=Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning |year=1640 |translator-first=Gilbert |translator-last=Wats |publisher=Oxford University |pages=257–271}}</ref><ref name="Dupuy">{{cite web |author-last=Dupuy, Jr. |author-first=Paul J. |work=An Authorship Analysis – Francis Bacon as Shake-speare |publisher=Shake-n-Bacon |orig-year=May 1996 |title=The Advancement of Learning |volume=6 |location=London |at=Chapter 1 |url=http://home.hiwaay.net/~paul/bacon/advancement/book6ch1.html |access-date=2017-03-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318232428/http://home.hiwaay.net/~paul/bacon/advancement/book6ch1.html |archive-date=2017-03-18}}</ref> In steganography, a message is concealed in the presentation of text, rather than its content. Baconian ciphers are categorized as both a [[Substitution cipher|substitution]] cipher (in plain code) and a [[Null cipher|concealment]] cipher (using the two typefaces).