Before the rise of modern computation, securing information relied on physical processes such as coded alphabets, graphical symbols, cipher wheels, and other analog mechanisms. This project reintroduces traditional practices through a system that invites users to physically engage with encryption and decryption.
(01) is a physical cipher system that encrypts messages through a sequential process: letters are first scrambled using a One-Time Pad, a randomized key, then translated into binary, and finally transformed into cipher glyphs, which can be physically stamped and sent alongside a key to a designated decryptor.
The system includes a set of nine stamps, a storage box, and a codebook for reference and decoding.
- Vanessa Kang
- Helen Qing-Ran Chen
- Andrew LeClair
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