Too many unscrupulous people are trying to hack or “phish” their way into people’s data with the
clear intention of stealing everything that they can. With this in mind, North 12 have developed an
encryption tool that will take a short message less than 180 characters and code it into what appears
as meaningless text with more characters than the original message.
The inspiration for this encryption tool came after watching the quite brilliant film, The Imitation
Game about Alan Turing’s success in decoding the Nazi “Enigma” machine.
Admittedly, Turing was a mathematical genius and North 12 are not comparing ourselves to his
talents, however, we have an advantage. Technology has moved on somewhat from the 1940’s, a
mobile phone has more computing power than the mechanical colossus that Turing’s team
assembled.
The enigma machine worked by selecting a combination of wires like an early telephone operator
and setting a series of rotors in a particular order and every time a key was pressed on the machine,
the rotors would rotate. This gave a maximum of 150 000 000 000 000 000 combinations.
In North 12’s encryption tool, the “rotors” are set by the code word which is decided by the user.
The difference is that the original enigma machine had 3 rotors. North 12’s encryption tool has 32,
giving at least 50 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 combinations.
With the additional benefit of filling the rest of the message with, to all intents and purposes, junk
characters.
To use the encryption tool is easy,
First choose a code word, the recipient also needs to know what this is and it needs to be eight
letters long.
For simplicities sake, we’ve used “aaaaaaaa”
Notice that 180 letters appear in the bottom box, appearing at random and with no spaces.
Then, type the message that you want to encode into the top box.
Notice how the text has changed in the bottom box? This is your encoded message. Also, please
take note that the 48 characters of plain text has changed into 180 letters that really don’t mean
that much.
Copy and paste the bottom box into a text file, Notepad is ideal.
Then, email this to whoever you want to send coded messages to.
When, the recipient receives some random text, all they have to do is set the code word to match
the one used when encoding the original message. The selecting “Decode” on the tool. Then paste
the coded message into the top box.
See the decoded message in the bottom box, note that colons denote spaces.
We would advise that you don’t use this tool for anything illegal, it will stop hackers etc but law
enforcement and government agencies have access to the latest technology which will be able to
crack pretty much any code, and there are plenty of modern day Alan Turing’s….