About Encryption

My son has been speaking simple words for quite some time already. But recently, he started to speak his usual words with either the consonants or vowels replaced with other alphabets.  E.g. normally he would say, “seven, eight, nine, ten”, now he would say, “seben, eick, nime, fen”.  Initially, I thought he’s just being playful, cos he knew he said the words wrongly, and that his daddy and mommy would spot his mistakes from a mile away, so he just wanna see our response and have a good laugh about it.

However, the more I think about his actions, the clearer it becomes: My. Son. Knows. ENCRYPTION.

WHOA.

I mean, I may be thinking too much, but think about it: what are the basics of message encryption?  You take a normal message, run it through a cipher, and out comes an encrypted message, which is exactly what my son did!  Is my son a digital prodigy? Is he The One?  Am I in the Matrix?  Will my son fly?

WHOA!