Re: Cryptographic Method...?

On Dec 8, 7:42 am, joed...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Dec 8, 10:24 am, The Translucent Amoebae <transamoe...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



i tried asking about this on the Cryptographic NewsGroup,
and while they seemed very helpful & attentive to one of my other
posts,
i got zilch from this inquiry...???

i have created a methodology of encryption ( several approaches ) that
i call UnCodes.
An Uncode produces a page of encrypted text that LOOKS like it's in
code,
But it's NOT.
For someone that's; In The Know, They can just pick it up and read it
without difficulty.

The most elegant, i think, is writing the text upside down, last to
first...
( Best done by a computer program )
Using characters that when rotated properly, Look like their PlainText
Counterpart...
code p becomes plaintext d
code a becomes plaintext e
code h becomes plaintext y
code c becomes plaintext )
code t becomes plaintext F
and vice versa.
Not all characters have elegant solutions ( ?! )
To read the text, turn the page upsidedown.

Does this process ( including all other methods ) have a name.
i find it completely unreasonable that i've invented something
new...???

They are being politely silent. Essentially, you are using a
monoalphabetic cypher. The
security of such things is considered zero in the modern world of
crypto. Could be used to
fool someone for a very short time, but it's about the equivalent to
using a combination lock
like they make for bicycles. Not particularly secure, but might delay
someone for a few minutes.

Joe

Well... yeah.
It's a play thing,
Some kind of Word Play...
This is the same response that i got over in The Cryptographic
Group...
They thought that i was proposing some New Fangled Encryption system
that would replace RSA...!

It's just a children's play thing...
Also; i don't think anyone in either group is GETTING IT...???
It's Not Really a Cypher is any usual sense...
i don't know how to explain UnCodes any clearer...
They are NOT NOT NOT CODES,
They ONLY LOOK LIKE CODES!
Perhaps The Differentiating Key is that UnCodes are Never DeCrypted,
They are just read.
In the Cryptographic Group, and in other venues when i've tried to
explain this idea to people familiar with Code Making & Code Breaking,
they will explain how the methods proposed are 'Weak' and this is how
they'd decode them...
You don't decode them... They are never decoded...!!!
They are Not Codes...!!!

Is this really a new idea...???

Another variation would be to simply write the message from bottom to
top, left to right.
It would look like gibberish, but it would require a little
examination to figure it out.
To read it, you'd simple rotate the paper, 90º counterclockwise.
Curiously; i find this method very hard to read...?

Another method might be to write a message so that if you folded the
paper in half and held it up to a light, the overlapping characters
would form 'Whole' characters which can then be easily read.
( Note that half the characters would be upside down & backwards... )
So that - and V would make an A.

Someone must have worked with this before...
What did they call it...?
.

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