Booknemonic

People trade their privacy for pennies or funny pictures. And once it's gone, you'll never get it back!

Internet is gaining new users, everyday. Unfortunately, privacy has lost its importance due to this huge adoption. One way or another, private messages are not that private anymore, that's why big companies like facebook have renamed them to "Direct Messages". Even if they don't tend to look on our messages, governments can do it if they want. Using PGP for sending encrypted messages seems too complicated for an ordinary human. These days I've been working on a program which makes encryption simplier to be achieved. Introducing Booknemonic.

How does it work?

Once you start the program it'll generate you an entropy (a really big random number). Then it will convert that number to 12 words. You can either write them down to a paper or keep them on your computer's hard drive. These so-called "private words" must be kept secret. Whoever sees them can prove that is you. After doing some really complicated maths (Elliptic curve cryptography), we end up having 24 new words that can be given to anyone. These public words are mathematically connected with the private ones. You can go from private to public, but not he other way around.

So now we can encrypt and sign messages using only some memorizable words instead of large base64 encoded text. This way, sensitive messages can be transfered through social media, but no one except the person that owns the words, can see the text. Because I care about my privacy, I'm posting my public words here and a signed message to prove the ownership. Whoever claims to be me, will have to prove it with a digital signature first.

Salty Spitoon's public words: 

advance concert visit awesome neglect fire dizzy club deny danger disease sign

rebel donkey tone educate dumb desert mosquito happy crane jungle grit near

Message: 

I am Angelo, also known as Salty Spitoon, and I prove that I own these words. (15 December 2020)

Signature:

H1KL04o+yLmDo3+akV8JGg5DkbTFpdn7BzR7laWvqpHDCO579Tvar4QDaM6cYecX5RXaz9POBvm6WCRhHk02WRM=

In maths we trust.