Securing Messages
Sending A More Secure Telegram
There is no concern if your Telegram message can be read, if the content is already encrypted. To make this work the sender and receiver need to agree on two things:
- A coding key document that is short, original, unpublished, and "never scanned".
- An unwritten easy to remember encoding/decoding rule set that only the sender and receiver know.
The coding key document and the encoding/decoding rule set MUST be kept private, while the encrypted message can be made public. With the rule set private and coding key not part of the digital world, the message is useless, even to all of the world's computers processing power combined.
Using the encoding rule set, each letter, space and punctuation mark is transposed into a digit group. These digit groups are then sent to the recipient, who uses the same rule set to decode the digit groups back to the corresponding letter, space or punctuation mark. Be sure to use a different encoding digit group for each repeat character, so that each use of an 'e' does not end up being the same digit group!
Let's say we want to send the message 'cat and mouse.' Then we might select the
book: Kraus, J. (1995). Big Ear Two: Listening for Other-Worlds (1st ed.). Cygnus-Quasar as the coding key and set the rules for each digit group to be PLCC,
| PLCC | = | 0-9 | Pages 120-129 |
| PLCC | = | 1-9 then 0 | Lines 1-10 |
| PLCC | = | 01-99 | Character from left |
Then 'cat and mouse.' would encode
| 7439 0906 1324 7211 3834 8101 9622 6018 4849 2320 6441 4435 5516 3209 |
Do not pick a coding key document that is a published source. Why? Because digitized published sources can be mined to attempt to decipher the message.