Crypto scheme idea

Douglas Lucas dal at riseup.net
Fri Apr 20 01:13:51 PDT 2018


Hello cryptocurrency hoarders, aspiring cryptocurrency hoarders, and others,

In English the system for accenting English words is binary. If one were
to say aloud, "crypto", each syllable is either stressed or unstressed,
yes no, on off, CRYPT-o. 1, 0.

Similarly, Morse code is binary. Dash or dot. CRYPTO in Morse code is:
-.-. .-. -.-- .--. - --- or, assuming arbitrarily that dash is 1: 1 0 1 0
0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1.

This, I don't know the fancypants word, homomorphism, across the two
systems -- that both are suspectible to binary rendition -- means that in
theory one could say X and non X simultaneously with one string.

I guess the most obvious difficult is that the Morse stuff takes up way
many more characters than the verbal scansion. For example, cat (as in
feline, not concatenate) is just a single syllable stressed. So it's a
single character: 1.But in Morse code, "cat" is -.-. .- - which takes 7
characters not counting spaces.

One thing I like about this system is that the attacker Chuck could know
exactly what the algorithm is and neveretheless fail to decrypt it becasue
the whole system is so ridiculous that only an Alice and Bob with a lot of
time on their hands and/or eccentricity would be able to actually bother
to encipher and decrpt these kind of strings.

Is there a way to make this work without using Morse (becasue too many
characters) but while keeping the defense of eccentricity, i.e., the
time/weird investment required in order to encipher and decrypt?

Thanks,

Douglas





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