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Seal a secret and tweet it to friends

Seal a secret and tweet it to friends
Warning: SwaTwt is not secure. I don't delete this instructable because people might still get here from an external link and I'd rather have a warning here and not a 404 error :)

You're having a party. You want your friends to come, you trust them to bring their friends, but you don't want the entire city there. Now how do you shout out a whisper?

The Sealed with a Tweet project lets you do just that. Write a secret, seal it, and tweet it "on a need to know basis".

How? By tweeting a link to a seal - a concealed text message that can only be revealed if you have its key. If you don't, the secret won't be revealed, and you'll get garbage instead.

Enough talk. Let's see an example: the key to http://SwaTwt.com/?iRZm1Fw5 is nowitnotwnocrymeariver. Why such a weird key? We'll soon find out, but in one sentence, the key needs to be strong - or it will be easily cracked.
 
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Step 1Create a strong and "chantable" key

Create a strong and \"chantable\" key
We won't explain how to use SwaTwt, because it's trivial. You can read in the help how to reveal or seal a secret. The important thing is to create a key that is strong enough, yet easy to tell someone in a face to face meeting (in a club, on the beach, etc.) without having to write anything down.

This can be done by using a chant:
* A chant consists of 2 sentences.
* The second sentence contains the word "acronym"

For example:
Woman is the nigger of the world
No acronym no cry me a river


The acronym of the first sentence is witnotw (note: it's easier to type an acronym than memorize it), so our key will be nowitnotwnocrymeariver which is easy to remember, yet hard to guess (and by "guess" we mean brute force and dictionary attacks. Not just trying the names of all your pets).

ShushTags
Since you might have several different keys, it is a good idea to associate our key with a tag (known as a ShushTag), so that if you tweet a seal, people would know what key to use in order to reveal the secret it contains. The ShushTag should be meaningful for people who know the key, but not reveal the key to people who don't. The ShushTag for our key can be #BabylonBabe: Babylon has a river where people used to weep, and babe is a [not-so-politically-correct-but-short] word for woman.

Note: Our key could have been a strong one, but since it's publicly available (here, for example), it's not really useful for secrets. Still, #BabylonBabe (both the tag and the key), can be used if you want to send a message to all people who are interested in SwatTwt. Think of it as our semi-public chat room. See you there.
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