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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Ternary Encoding :-)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 18:24:10 -0000 (UTC)
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Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:
> Stefan Claas wrote:
>> 
>> echo 'Happy News Year 2025' | ternary
>> 2112102022020111101010222211010022112012102120110020100021120220
>> 10000111010121200020221000211000220022020
>> 
>> $ echo 'Happy News Year 2025' | ternary | ternary -d
>> Happy News Year 2025
>> 
>> (My program works with binary data as well.)
>> 
> 
> The nice thing is we can like xor use ternary exclusive or (txor)
> to encrypt/decrypt messages. :-)
> 
> $ echo 'Happy News Year 2025' | ternary > message.txt
> $ txor -k k-1.txt < message.txt > message_encrypted.txt
> $ txor -k k-1.txt -d < message_encrypted.txt > message_decrypted.txt
> $ ternary -d < message_decrypted.txt
> Happy News Year 2025

How does "ternary exclusive or" differ from the usual boolean xor?

Provided one can "xor" binary data, there's zero need for any odd 
'encoding specific' xor operation.  Just do a binary xor and be done.

Of course, this just brings to the front the OTP key distribution and 
key reuse problems.