Really cool! I actually read about this idea years ago in a book (Dean Koontz, The Husband iirc). Ever since then I've wondered why it isn't more common to try

Really cool! I actually read about this idea years ago in a book (Dean Koontz, The Husband iirc). Ever since then I've wondered why it isn't more common to try to obscure messages through normal means. I guess the data formats are too inefficient in most scenarios. Eg, encoding bytes as words is insanely inefficient, but somehow encoding them in such a way that they make grammatical sense as to not seem "off" - I imagine would be nearly impossible and/or crazy inefficient. Double that with trying to encrypt your encoded bytes, such that if they were discovered, the encoded bytes wouldn't be blatantly obvious. That's... a lot of damn data haha.