That’s stupid, any cypher you can keep in your head is easily cracked.
If you want privacy, look towards encryption. Get a cheap laptop without internet access, install whatever Linux distribution, then keep everything encrypted.
So all you need to keep in your head is your master password.
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Any unencrypted language is crackable; if you are simply using an alphabet to obscure English, it will be immediately broken simply due to frequency analysis of the the letters and word lengths. A whole unencrypted language is harder but there will be plenty of context clues to crack it. Encryption is by far the best way to ensure privacy.
AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
thanks for your reply. Do you know if there are any ancient languages that (so far) withstood attempts of translation?
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Not definitivy. Ancient Egyptian hyroglyphics withstood it for a while but the Rosetta Stone cracked it (also I suspect modern computing would have done so by now anyway). The Voynich Manuscript is uncracked but there is a hypothesis that it gibberish, an uncracked natural language, or a ciphertext (encrypted).
niartenyaw@midwest.social 11 months ago
Not quite what you’re asking for, but during WW2 the US employed Navajo speakers to use their language for certain verbal communications because it was so different from popular languages and hard to decipher. There’s a lot written about them out there. I would also recommend checking out The Code Book by Simon Singh, it’s a great recap of the history of secret codes and breaking them.
solidgrue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Voynich Manuscript (Wikipedia, YouTube) has been challenging to decipher. The video covers some of the be axons as to why, as well as discusses some of the analytical methods used to attack such codices.
In short, natural languages tend to leave fingerprints which can be used to attack crypto. It seems a mix of constructed language plus cryptography to obscure it is strongest.
Volkditty@kbin.social 11 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeciphered_writing_systems