Briefly, two things:
1. the scientists in the UAE/Climategate thing committed the fundamental email sin: they wrote in emails things they would not say on a postcard. Well all do it. We should not. Annoying though it is, we should encrypt, because email has a sense of privacy which is utterly false.
2. encrypt is a boring word. We should broaden the field. There’s already a verb “to occult“; we could add enigmise, arcanify, and hermetograph. Or we could go a bit more classical: Gordianise, Daedalate.
Anyone got any more suggestions? I had vaticise, gnomify, and sphynxert, too, the first two turned out to mean something different and the last one seems somehow like someone with a fetish for chimerae.
