Digital Fortress Secret Code

Umm... I think this book is sooo oldie.. you know, it was published in 1998.. but, I read last year (hehehe) because, I was told by my teacher that this novel -Digital Fortress- was one of Dan Brown's great novel! A thrilling novel! And she told me last year. So, after being told by my teacher, I immediately read this novel and I was really satisfied :)

The novel is about a cryptographer (codes and cryptograms -maths and computer science- analyser), named Susan Fletcher. Well, actually in this post I don't want to talk about the story, but I want to talk about something special in this novel.

Ok. About 4 days ago, my younger sister has finished read this novel. And she told me that she was confused by the code that was given by Dan Brown at the end of the page. I was so surprised! I didn't know about any code at the end of the page! Well, maybe I thought it was the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) hehehe

Well, after my sister told me about the code, we were so excited about this thing. We were decided to solve the code and found the meanings. Here's the code:

128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78

At first, we were so confused about this thing, but we tried so hard by following the methods like Susan Fletcher did in the novel. However, we couldn't get what these code meant! Because I was so impatient, I searched it in google aaand... I found the First Key!

FYI: I was just peeking, okay?! I didn't read all the informations. As I found in google, these numbers were Digital Fortress' Chapter and all I had to do was take the first letter from each chapter. I also read in google that this code was for English version only and I was really annoyed because I bought the Indonesian version, not the English version. So, I scrolled down the page (I didn't see all the page, ok?!) and I found these:

W E C G E W H Y A A I O R T N U

These letters were the first letter from every chapter. The first thought when I saw these letters was The Caesar's Box (it was mentioned in the book when Susan Fletcher solved the last code). To make it sure it was The Caesar's Box, I counted the letters and it was all true! There were 16 letters! So, I immediately made a square (like in the novel) with those letters, 4 rows and 4 columns, like this:

W E C G

E W H Y

A A I O

R T N U

Then, like Ms. Fletcher did, all I had to do was read these letters from the left top letter (W) to downward. Then, I revealed the secret code! The code is:

WE ARE WATCHING YOU

Frankly, I was so excited that I revealed the code!! Dan Brown is a genius! That's why I really admire his novels! :D