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Re: Spellfucker

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Post by cies »

syphilis2 wrote: post #16

"The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans" At first look it doesn't pass the search engine test. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=I%27ve+bien+aloune+whyth+jou+eensi...

Good test! No this is one way: you know the obfuscated.

What if you want to use it in the opposite direction? Let's call it the CIA/NSA direction, where you know what unobfuscated phrase you want to find, but not how someone may have obfuscated it. This is arguably much harder, especially if you do not store some sort of representation of the content "as sounds/phonemes".

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Post by laumars »

icelancer wrote: post #14
logicallee wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which means that it is unreadable - because that's not what it says! You couldn't read it.

A high, high percentage of the translated text is easily readable. A few edge cases doesn't make it unreadable.

> A high, high percentage of the translated text is easily readable

Again, to you specifically. Different people have differing abilities at reading the English language. What you might find easy others would not. In my case I could not read about 80% of the example text. Which was why I made the point to discuss specific people (like myself) in my example rather than assuming everyone would be able to read that text equally competently (like you are doing).

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Post by xixixao »

Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn.

Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

Re: Spellfucker

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Post by deanclatworthy »

syphilis2 wrote: post #16

"The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans" At first look it doesn't pass the search engine test. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=I%27ve+bien+aloune+whyth+jou+eensi...

I suspect there is some part of their algorithm using levenshtein distance behind the scenes (or something similar). Spellfucker would not help with this.

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Post by sleepychu »

xixixao wrote: post #23

Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn. Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

Only a couple of words caught me out. Not Slavik. ^^

Re: Spellfucker

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Post by khedoros1 »

laumars wrote: post #3

Interesting idea though I don't agree with his statement: > The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans I found it impossibly difficult to read and I'm an native English speaker. I'd wager people who studied English as a second language might find it harder.

Also a native English speaker. I wouldn't call it easy, but I had luck loosening my expectations for the letter sounds and imagining someone with a heavy accent saying the words. An exercise in fuzzy pattern matching.

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Post by pikzel »

xixixao wrote: post #23

Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn. Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

I could read it fairly well, and I'm Swedish. Now I feel Slavik.

Re: Spellfucker

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Post by krige »

xixixao wrote: post #23

Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn. Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

Akszualli dis is en obsfuskejszon juzing an akszual slawik lenguydz (uidaut juzing speszal slawik karakters but that // łud potenszalli bi iwen more obfuskejted). Ol klir?
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