Tag: Kundera

  • Language and encryption

    I am not sure that encryption is still needed in the 21st or 15th (AH) century since language is so convoluted that there might not be a single text which is free from abiguity. Milan Kundera noted the same phenomenon in his The unbearable lightness of being which describes a romantic failure as a lack of patience regarding “learning each other’s idiosyncratic language.”

    Kundera wrote that each person has her own language, and that a succesfull romantic relationship consists of learning the language of the other, of having the patience of learning the “code” of the other.

    If this is not ambiguous enough for you consider one of my projects https://encryption.zoam.nl/1 which uses obfuscation and a Roman cipher. I created it a while ago but I remember sending it to a friend who has a masters in computer science and who could not crack it.

    1. It needs a password but if you know my background it should not be too difficult to crack. ↩︎