CDR: Re: Treatment of subjugated people (and bagpipes)

[Tim May]

At 1:24 PM -0700 9/4/00, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>
>An interesting point:  There are ancient inscriptions in Wales 
>that no one has been able to read in modern times.  Deciphering
>an unknown langauge, not related to known languages, when it is
>written in an unknown script is a feat of linguistics that
>transcends mere cryptanalysis and has, so far, rarely or never
>been done. 
>
>And, as language, doubtless it has regular structure, patterns,
>grammar, and the flexibility of use that people in everyday lives
>need in speaking - and presumably they're not even encrypted.
>
>"Poor Man's Crypto", possibly even better than digital crypto,
>may consist in creating an artificial language together, and
>then using it whenever you don't want to be eavesdropped on.

How is your "Poor Man's Crypto" different in any way from _codes_?

Cf. any standard text on why codes are not nearly as useful as ciphers.

--Tim May

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