Message to the Future beings

Have you ever though to send a message for the future beings? No matter who would read it? The requirements are to generate a message that will be stored forever but than only be read in the future…

Let’s see how you can do it. Let’s build a message which can be read but not understood… wait! What? Let’s see how real crypto, not the crypto bro’s crypto can help us:

1. Generate a plain message.
2. Generate a random number of 16 bytes.
3. Encrypt the message with this key.
4. Delete this key and do not write it down.
   • Optionally you can just show some bytes to “regulate” the future time in which could be read.

The result could be something like this:

It includes the encrypted message, and a flag for the decryption with a text in plain and its encryption to help the future reader :) . Finally we should store it in a permanent not mutable storage, and nothing more than the ipfs.

I already did it.