Convert binary data to English gibberish using a dictionary of 2^16 words.
A normal 128-bit number can be encoded in hexidecimal as:
aaf4c61ddcc5e8a2dabede0f3b482cd9aea9434d
This is pretty tough to copy by hand. Why not use English? Bitter takes the same 128-bit number and encodes it as:
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The word list is available in
words.txt.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'bitter'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install bitter
You can encode and decode strings of bytes using Bitter.encode and
Bitter.decode.
require 'bitter'
puts Bitter.encode File.new('pic.jpg').read
Bitter also works from the command line:
$ echo "Hello world" | bitter
electronically humblest impair
$ bitter myphoto.jpg > myphoto.jpg.txt
$ bitter --decode myphoto.jpg.txt > myphoto2.jpg
$ diff myphoto.jpg myphoto2.jpg