maze based cryptography
This is a randomly generated maze so nothing is actually encoded here but I dont think it would be very hard to encode messages into mazes in a way that isn't suspicious. Starting from the bottom the movements are: rlrrllrlrlrllrlrlrlrlllrrrllrrrlrrllrlllrrlrlrrlrrllrlrrrlllrlrllrrllrllrrllrrlr. If you say that right is 0 and l is 1 then you have encoded binary into your maze. In this maze you would have: 01001101 01011010 10101110 00110001 00110111 00101001 00110100 01110101 10011011 00110010. A binary to text converter tells me that this is "MZ�17)4u�2" which is gibberish because it's randomly generated but still. I don't think anyone would notice
It's a cool idea, and there's definitely something there, but it needs more development before it's feasible
Binary is just too inefficient, you'd need massive mazes to encode even short messages
This was my attempt to encode 4 words (utilizing 0 as keep going straight and 1 as turn, in order to avoid the "circling back on itself" problem that was mentioned in the comments) and only about half of that even fit in the maze
I think to make it work you'd need an alternative way to encode the text into the maze
oh yeah i didnt think of that. modified the code to use this tactic, its a bit nicer. (this also encodes "hello world" -> 0110100001100101011011000110110001101111001000000111011101101111011100100110110001100100)
this one could also be modified to optimize for shortest possible path, but the execution time would probably jump up like 100 times.
