Thursday, 27 April 2017

Yoruba Orthography - A case for a new Yoruba alphabet based on Odù Ifá - an opinion.

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How did we end up with the current alphabet?  According to Rev. Samuel Johnson (the author of “The History of the Yorubas from the Earlie...

Cryptography Cont. Ìtọ́wò (Taster) - Simple encryption/decryption

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Let's assume that during the Ibadan-Ijaye war of 1861-1862, Kurumi - the Àrẹ Ọ̀nàkakanfò (Generalissimo) of the Yoruba army wanted t...

Cryptography Cont. - Matrix, Ifa’s perspective - it is all about rows and columns! Ayò game is a matrix.

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Before we get into the practical applications of the things we have learned over the past few posts, we must examine one major Mathematic...

The signature of all Odu Ifa.

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The signature of all Odu Ifa. - Credit to: Prof Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
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Cryptography cont.- ASCII Codes and Odu Ifa, What is the uniqueness of 256? Coincidence?

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In the last few posts, we have seen how to map Odu Ifa to binary digits and from binary digits to decimal. Since we humans mostly write i...

Cryptography - From Odu Signs to Numbers (Binary and Decimal)...

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Now that we know how to generate random Odus with Ọ̀pẹ̀lẹ̀, how do we translate these Odus to numbers? Odus are marked with “|” and “||”....

Cryptography - Inspiration from Odu Ifa (Ọ̀pẹ̀lẹ̀ Chain)

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The cornerstone of all modern encryption systems is the generation of random numbers. If you want to encrypt any data, you must use cryptogr...