OOC -- In Praise Of The Skunk

[sythyry]

A few weeks ago beetiger offered up some of my archives of old pottery to good homes. melskunk was one of the people who volunteered to help us out.

We did ask people to give us something in exchange. It didn't have to be much -- leto_lapin sent us some well-used and well-loved family recipes, and we were muchly pleased -- but some people offered some seriously creative works.

melskunk's is the first of those to arrive entirely. Half of it was some delightful little furry footprint and face fridge magnets, so we can teach projectmothra to track various of our friends in that fandom.

And we would have been muchly pleased with that alone.

But the other half was original poetry in ... you can't really call it facing English and her conlang (whose name I have lost) because it's also computer calligraphy and the polychrome conlang text swirls around the linear black English. It's art and poetry at once. It's amazing and original and wonderful.

Now that we have her address (return address on the package) we even can send the pottery!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

do you have any extra codes? if so...maybe I could have it? It would be very helpful! Thanks!

Email- AlyssaAnn03@aol.com

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Rot13 (a->n, b->o, c->p, etc.) works for all the things I need encoded -- it's very very easy to break, and everyone on the net as of ten years ago knows it, but it takes enough work so that you can hide spoilers or dirtybits behind it and people can't read them by mistake.

If you want something fairly cryptographically secure ... um ... it's been a long time since my brief time working with Ron Rivest (the "R" of "RSA cryptosystems"), but as I understand, RSA is still considered pretty much unbreakable if done right. Look under "public-key cryptosystems". PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, is a free implementation.

If you want something that there's absolutely no chance that the CIA can break ... um ... why are you chatting up random LiveJournal users, even ones with PhD's in computer science from schools with good crypto programs? Would you really trust me if I said that, say, "There's nobody on the planet who can break DES encryption?" I could! I could even find a report from 1968 to cite! It was probably true then!


Hope this helps!

- Bard