A simple, yet effective method of encrypting text visually by removing pieces from the letters and adding visual noise. My goal was to make a font that would be illegible even if you know about the underlying method – but at the same time decodeable using a surprisingly simple key. I wanted to create a purely visual encryption, meaning that you should not have to think about decoding the text – your eye should do the work. As it were, it is a visual experiment that mixes principles of typography (the art of arranging information), steganography (the art of concealing information) and cryptography (the art of scrambling it). The name “Disinter” comes from the obfuscation process I developed: It consists of “disrupting” and “interlacing” the characters.
A mysterious message
The decryption key: By laying a transparent film with a simple stripe pattern over the encrypted message, the missing bits are filled in, while the superfluous visual noise is cancelled.
Page from the documentation book explaining the process in detail.
Can you read it?
The message, decrypted: The previously very confusing signs become cleartext again.
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samluescher: Very cool use of web #video, and great projects! http://t.co/FwcnDqU6jF Jan. 8, 2014
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samluescher: The moment when Apple started to imitate Windows 8. http://t.co/uJhzt6Zzt6 (+ the lost years we spent mastering the Photoshop gradient tool) June 11, 2013
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samluescher: Obviously the average color of a film frame will be rather dull. Nonetheless, neat #visualization http://t.co/hpkew3YBve May 8, 2013
samluescher: Hard lesson learned [again]: real world just doesn't align with a video feed, a projector AND a virtual world at the same time. #dirtyhacks April 15, 2013
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