[Cryptography] Steganography and bringing encryption to a piece of paper

[Bill Stewart]

>On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Christian Huitema 
><<mailto:huitema at huitema.net>huitema at huitema.net> wrote:
>The made up language works for a personal diary, but it would not 
>have solved the problem for my mother (and mostly my grandfather). 
>They needed to send messages that would not be flagged by the 
>censors. A language that censors did not understand was sure to draw 
>the attention of the Gestapo!

Back in the 90s, a friend of mine was doing development work in Ethiopia,
and the phone company told him to stop making calls in Dutch;
he should stick to languages that the police can understand.
I offered to teach him PGP, but he said that would just give the police
an excuse to confiscate his computer so he'd rather risk plaintext email.