Re: 9pm Oliver and OPEN
"No way—Jesus, today is awesome," Avram said, barely able to believe his luck. He hadn't even considered the possibility of adding in the complexities of languages other than English, because he'd been fretting that it might be hard to teach a sufficiently secure cipher to a bunch of people who'd never voluntarily agreed to be students. Using a multilingual person as a relay, however, could be effective. Even just picking his brain about language issues would help with beating frequency analysis. "The ghost of Alan Turing is watching over us tonight. Yeah, man, crypto's been a hobby of mine since I was...wow, like 13? A long time. So I've got favourite ciphers and modification ideas, which all depend on handwriting everything—I have a system to deal with the cameras. Spoken language opens up all kinds of other avenues, that'd be amazing. And for steg especially—I'm getting ahead of myself. Are you like a linguist, what languages do you speak?"