: Re: Using substitution ciphers to generate new alphabets in a novel A substitution cipher is a method used in cryptography to encrypt the meaning of a text. In the most common form, a substitution

If you wish to depict encrypted text, use an actual encryption. Something that could be decrypted by hand, but would require some effort. That would be a fun for a puzzle-minded reader to figure out, an easter-egg if you wish. For the reader who is not a puzzle lover, you should (eventually) provide the translation, if it is of any story importance. As an example consider the runic cryptogram in Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth:

Pretending that in the future leet could be used as a form of encryption is an insult to your readers' intelligence, since readers, at least younger readers, would easily read it and find it annoying (not or as Secespitus suggests). Since there's no challenge for the reader, it breaks our suspension of disbelief that there's challenge for the characters.

The only situation under which leet could work is if your intention is to use it for humorous effect. If, for example, your post-literate characters assume an ancient piece of text is some sort of secret code, but your reader realises it's a note between students in class, suggesting rude things about the teacher, you play the mismatch between what the characters comprehend and what the reader comprehends to your advantage.

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