Today’s computers use software tools to hide your sensitive information and keep it out of the wrong hands. We use codes in everyday life by using phrases like LOL! instead of Laugh Out Loud! The encryption and decryption of messages in everywhere around us. During the Civil War getting your message through to friendly units could mean victory or bring upon disaster. To help secure your message, your need to encrypt or change the message into something that only the intended person could understand.

Learn different techniques to encode your messages to keep your information secure using a Scytale, a cipher disk, and symbols. Find out how female spies Rose O'Neal Greenhow and Elizabeth Van Lew’s used codes to get their messages through.

This program is free to the public thanks to the support of the Friends of Fort Fisher, the Town of Kure Beach, the Town of Carolina Beach and New Hanover County.