He is trying to reduce Taft's book "A Foreign Policy for Americans" to readable size.
Unlike simple computer login passwords — which can often be guessed or bypassed to get to readable files — disk encryption scrambles files so they can't be read without the correct key.
It was set up to reward literature and artistic achievement as opposed to "readable" books, to have writers judging writers rather than writers, politicians and the odd celebrity and to allow all English-language fiction to compete regardless of nationality or gender.
"None of my PDF files were remotely close to readable on this thing," he says.
Locking and unlocking are not common terms in cryptography instead, "encrypting" data turns it from readable into unreadable, and "decrypting" data changes it from unreadable to readable.
Thanks to readable prose and the obvious passion of my guide, I found myself enjoying even those paragraphs where I hardly understood a thing about, say, the construction materiel or the propulsion fuels he was writing about.
