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It’s like a superpower. I can, with little effort, write notes that the ‘kids’ nowadays cannot read.
by theflyingelvis 4y ago
It’s like a superpower. I can, with little effort, write notes that the ‘kids’ nowadays cannot read.
- ajuc 4y agoGo one step further - develop your own script. It's surprisingly useful.
- yieldcrv 4y agociphers are easily broken with frequency analysis. English always has a ton of E’s encoding can be much faster than decoding, going more complicated to beat frequency analysis is just going to slow your own decoding/reading down Yes it does thwart people that should have already been bounced by the cultural expectation of not reading your journal, but it doesn’t take a state actor to break it, just someone slightly above curious
- ajuc 4y agoI'm aware (even if the one I'm using isn't a simple letter substitution, it's inspired by quenya and sanskrit). I created it for a tabletop rpg I'm running, my friends (a few programmers and a math major) couldn't decode it after a few weeks of trying without several hints and a few-pages-long sample, which is good enough for me. I've prepared a lot of puzzles for them, and this was significantly harder than a simple cipher with letter substitution, because even separating it into letters to feed it into frequency analysis isn't obvious. Of course if I used it for journals or sth like that it would be easy to crack, but I'm mostly using it to write very short notes. Have a crack if you want :) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52366236038_9b3a642015_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52366236038_9b3a642015_b...
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoUnless you're Christian Bök or reading Gadsby.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoevidently 1/3 still can, so don't be too overconfident.
- octokatt 4y agoThis. I take notes in neat block writing, but also slurred cursive when I need to make a personal note (such as “this sprint is going to fail miserably, no reqs gathered”), which is nice so I have a little private space for notes.