{"id":1128,"date":"2026-07-14T23:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:35:20","slug":"language-and-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/language-and-encryption\/","title":{"rendered":"Language and encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <em>The unbearable lightness of being<\/em> which describes a romantic failure as a lack of patience regarding &#8220;learning each other&#8217;s <em>idiosyncratic <\/em>language.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8220;code&#8221; of the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this is not ambiguous enough for you consider one of my projects <a href=\"https:\/\/encryption.zoam.nl\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/encryption.zoam.nl\/\">https:\/\/encryption.zoam.nl\/<\/a><sup data-fn=\"22511afb-1993-4917-889d-8cf14f7e7133\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#22511afb-1993-4917-889d-8cf14f7e7133\" id=\"22511afb-1993-4917-889d-8cf14f7e7133-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"22511afb-1993-4917-889d-8cf14f7e7133\">It needs a password but if you know my background it should not be too difficult to crack.  <a href=\"#22511afb-1993-4917-889d-8cf14f7e7133-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"It needs a password but if you know my background it should not be too difficult to crack. \",\"id\":\"22511afb-1993-4917-889d-8cf14f7e7133\"}]"},"categories":[117],"tags":[69,45],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-kundera","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}