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0 pointstheandrewbailey9y ago0 comments

The constraint made me realize that the complex word isn't that helpful when the other person doesn't know much behind the word. You need to get inventive, and at some point, you might start having fun. I used this to explain encryption, and from the feedback I've got, I seem to have done a good job. It gets repetitive at times, but I managed to slip in PKI, password storage, and a brief summary of the Crypto Wars.

https://theandrewbailey.com/article/177/Hidden-Writing

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eric_h9y ago

That's pretty well done, actually. Personally, I would add an addendum at the end that breaks out of the ten hundred most commonly used words and actually introduces the reader to the terms you're dancing around.

theandrewbaileyOP9y ago

Thanks. I don't think that having a vocabulary list is necessary. Even though I recall there being such a list at the back of the book, I can't locate it on the XKCD site. I liberally linked to other places to further explain things with the big words. (Isn't that how the web is supposed to work?)

drb3119y ago

That's a great idea!

"Now you know what's going on, here are some words that make it easier to talk about."

egypturnash9y ago

I like how the text of your icon of an unencrypted messsage is completely breaking out of the Allowed Wordset.

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