ePixel8 - A Visual Messaging Service

In 2018, I adapted my Nolan's Distance Preserving Digital Hash into Chromatic computing, where I used colours/light pluses for calculating, storing, messaging, and transferring data in a home photonic Raspberry Pi cluster. As part of this activity, I developed a obfuscated Visual Messaging System called ePixel8, which was built into an android app called Apiar.

ePixel8 is a process of taking text strings and applying my Digital Hash to obfuscate them into a series of pixels in a mosaic image file. Each pixel represents a piece of the text in the text string, which can easily be encoded and decoded within the phone app. Each pixel can represent over a trillion combinations of text characters. While you can break it down by brute force computing, it would take a lot of time to correctly decode the specific pixel, and the put it into the correct sequence. It also compresses the data, I took an 16MB Ancestry DNA profile excel file into a 80K image file. Thus achieving over a 99.997% compression rate, with perfect recall.

So you can use the app anywhere on your android phone, type a message, convert it to am image file, send it by SMS, and the other person decode it within 30 seconds. It can also be enhanced with the inclusion of an enhanced mode, by incorporating an cypher sequence to further obfuscate the message.

As it has been 5 years since I developed this, I am interested to see what other possibilities there are with newer the newer technology available.

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