What is the Baconian Cipher?

The Baconian cipher is more like an encoding scheme than an encryption scheme. To convert into Baconian, each letter of the plaintext is replaced by a group of five of the letters 'A' or 'B'. You can read more about it in our cryptography tutorial on Baconian here.

True purpose of the Baconian Cipher

The baconian cipher makes a very poor cipher. It's true value shines in its covert abilities. It is able to be used to hide messages via capitalization, font, etc.

Tools For the Baconian Cipher

Baconian ciphertext can be decoded using this CyberChef recipe and plaintext can be encoded with the Baconian cipher with this CyberChef recipe. You may want to toggle the alphabet set or invert the translation when decoding if the ciphertext isn't decoding properly.