John Walker, founder of Autodesk, creator of The Hacker’s Diet, and all-around smart-type guy, has a fun new tool available for your encrypting pleasure. JavaScrypt is an entirely Javascript-based implementation of the AES that runs from the comfort of your very own Web browser. Though not as speedy as crypto code hand-tooled to run natively on your system, JavaScrypt has the advantage of being cross-platform. And because it’s running on your machine instead of someone else’s server, using source code that you can view yourself, it’s reasonably trustworthy.
Also hidden among the JavaScrypt pages are a steganography utility and a pass phrase generator, both of which make a delightful mockery of the English language in the name of data security. In particular, the steganography tool could easily find new purpose as a random post-modern poetry generator. The first few lines of the United States Declaration of Independence generate this lovely text:
Slangs aimfully, gawkies framers. Baffed falcated gurgles achromic fetlock. Furnish cornual itemizes downers sagging ferrums. Galiots funks roles betaines. Miaowing perjures.Now there’s a lovely bit of gibberish.
