International audienceCryptography can be defined as the art of secret communication. It is most often, but not exclusively, a writing operation, characterised by various types of concealment. From sacred texts to philosophies of representation, from mathematics to linguistics, from information theory to quantum theory, etc.: the manoeuvres of encryption and decryption can be of great immediacy and instantaneousness or, on the contrary, of infinite complexity, and often come under the heading of genuine interpretative pragmatics based on a shared personal history or on logic.Sensitivity to the ambiguity of the sign is tested by playing with the boundary between the image (pictorial motifs) and the text (graphic signs). A double discourse is...