txtmode

Maybe something similar to txtmode? [1] One could limit the dictionary to 5 letter words. [1] - https://github.com/c9fe/txtmode.git

Should something like this come to pass I would expect quite an amusing arms race. One could create add-ons that use code similar to txtmode [1] not my project to encode anything into words from a word list that anyone could create. Encoded in those words could be a compressed and/or encrypted string. There are probably even more clever and efficient ways to do E2EE without it looking like encryption at all. Would it be worthwhile to have a competition to create something along this line? Something in the same spirit as the js13kGames [2] but in this case who can create the most human looking and most efficient communication that is actually E2EE encrypted messages using customizable word-lists? [1] - https://github.com/c9fe/txtmode.git [2] - https://js13kgames.com/

Source: https://github.com/c9fe/txtmode I use this to send myself source code and zips on email, which sometimes blocks such attachments but not when "texted"

This is just a static client-side site in JavaScript. Source here: https://github.com/textonly/txtmode From the README: Simple client-side static page to convert any file to ASCII text (a-z) / (English words) for transport. Possible use cases are sending files over channels where only text is permitted / reliable. Or sending / archiving binary files as print outs that can be typed back in (given enough time / will to do so). Size expands about 8x (but depends), may as well zip first.

I made this quickly ( GitHub pages, see source at: https://github.com/textonly/txtmode ), because I needed to email myself backups of code, but GMail did not allow the zips to be sent.

Hey I did a write up of this here: https://medium.com/@dosy/sending-forbidden-files-on-gmail-us... Please excuse the tone I'm using. I'm just working out my style, and so on. Not an excuse. Just asking for kindness while I work out a writing voice. Anyway I can summarize here: - try to send many file types on GMail, get blocked for security reasons - convert the file to a text file using https://textonly.github.io/txtmode - attach the text file to the email and send it no problemo - use the same link to convert the text file back to the archive - congratulations you just used GMail to send a file GMail ( in its infinite wisdom ) did not want you to send I'm not making this as a hack and I hope no one uses it to do bad stuff obviously, this is just to get over the poorly implemented "threat scan" GMail currently uses, which blocks plenty o