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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Plain-view obfuscation techniques

I often send information that I don't need to protect from anyone but casual viewers:
  • hackerspeak - a way of exchanging similar-looking characters ("E"s into 3, "W"s into \/\/)
  • teh srclamber tool - benefits from the fact that we don't really read entire words, just the first and last character
  • rot13 - an ancient technique of rotating everything 13 characters forward (and then backward by the recipient)

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