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by sdenton4 615 days ago
Encode the seed in the arrangement of a deck of cards... shuffle to delete.
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The card deck can be the key and the encryption mechanism too with Solitare. It's not secure for longer messages but it should be sufficient for short messages. It's a delicate method though because if you mess up it can be difficult to impossible to recover the proper state of the deck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher)