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- stewdio0
I added two new features that are in beta. They're hidden at first. You have to click the empty space at the very bottom of the page. Then a new panel will popup. Here's what you can do:
1. Extended Characters. I added a panel of cute symbols (like the snowman, etc.), accented Latin, and math(s) symbols. Just click on one to add it to your message.
2. Privacy. I added the ability for very rudimentary encryption. It's just a thin deterrent so don't be naive, but it's fine for just normal private conversation. I tried to code it in a way that other people can write bookmarklets to extend and improve the functionality if that seems desirable.
The way it works is you paste in a long text into the encryption field. Anyone who has the *exact* same text in their encryption field will be able to decode your text correctly. Otherwise it will just be gibberish. Now in an ideal world this encryption field text would be completely random (rather than say... English where you could do character frequency analysis, etc.) and you would generate new random text for each message you wanted to send. If that sounds clumsy... That used to be how all sigint had to operate!