Good word. I don't know if you remember the Simon Singh book and TV series "The code book" which had a cryptographic challenge and a cash prize. I set about solving them. For one exercise, I assumed that the code was of a certain type and started to break it using that assumption. I'd got about a quarter of a message about A stargate opening, something about the time being right and a message being sent -- apocalyptic stuff. The key with which it was encoded seemed to be a bunch of gibberish three letter words though which made no sense. Eventually I discovered that the code was a different type and I'd been seeing these messages in the random noise. This probably says something about my subconscious but I am not sure what.