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I've been thinking about how to use Monero transactions as a means of communicating covertly with another person.
For example, if I sent you 0.000009830316 XMR using the code table above (you might need to download it to see it clearly) I would have communicated with you "WTB Fake ID".
WTB = 0(code)983
Fake ID = 0(code)316
XMR transactions could also be used to communicate which one-time pad should be used for a specific communication. For example, if I sent you the cyphertext EVGYY PCYZM NBAHJ and then a XMR transaction of 0.000000000021 XMR you would know to use the 00021 pad on the bottom left of the above image to decode the message.
I'm currently writing the rulebook for the Cypherpunk board game and thinking of some fun ways to hide easter eggs in the book using this method.
What do you think?
I don’t think, I know: it’s already been happening IRL, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. It started around here: https://aillia.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-the-other-side-of
The amount itself is the message. Some of my public posts are coded replies too ;))
Hi Aillia, not too sure what you mean, I've read your blog and this comment multiple times and not quite sure how it relates to codes or ciphers 😅
Do you mean the act of giving is a message in itself?
I was thinking more in lines of passing secret messages via the XMR blockchain by using numbers to represent code words.
Lol, it’s not that cryptic: I wrote those tweets (the ones I saved in that Substack article; the article itself isn’t a coded message) when I got my first coded message. I didn’t realize it at first; it just looked like a random tip. Then I received several more tips with strange amounts and hints, and it clicked: the tip amount is the code. That’s exactly what you mean by "passing secret messages via the XMR blockchain using numbers to represent words". After that I started posting coded replies in my public posts, like this one.
Ah ok cool! Got it 😊
So greater minds got to it before me 😁
It's a neat concept - how did you work out they were coded messages?
Here's another code system you might be interested in. A cryptographer called Leo Marks, who worked at the Special Operations Executive during WWII for the British devised a means of passing ciphers via steganography.
The idea is that someone would write a letter, how they phrase sentences would determine the number, he called it the "Wind Swept Code". It would go something like this:
Hello, Allia = 0
Dear, Allia = 1
Greetings, Allia =2
etc.
I'm so happy to have received your latest correspondence = 0
I'm so glad to have received your latest correspondence = 1
I'm thrilled to have received your message = 3
etc.
By the time you write out the whole letter no one is the wiser that you have passed on a coded message 😁
Would recommend the book 'Between Silk And Cyanide' which outlines this.
Well I know a thing or two about cryptography, math, and numbers in general... so once your brain has developed enough of the right synaptic connections, you start seeing patterns in seemingly random sequences :) idk how to explain it effectively, maybe try online version of SET game: IMO one of the best brain exercises outside of mathematics itself. When I binged on it I was able to do it competitively in seconds.
I'm also obsessed with the history of cryptography and unsolved puzzles like the Beale ciphers etc. I mentioned some of that here; being medical-grade paranoid since childhood helps too :) (and ofc you can use LLMs now too lol - they started solving old ciphers)
BTW, if you post your book rec in our Library you'll do a service to humanity ;) at least to the Monero part of humanity ;))