Secure data encoding for low-resource remote systems

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving a set of shared parameters, said set of shared parameters comprising:
• a coding frame, said coding frame comprising a plurality of spatially related positions;
• each of said plurality of spatially related positions being fillable by a content character selected from of a set of characters;
• one or more positioned elements, each of said one or more positioned elements having defined therefor a location position and one or more attack positions, said location position and each of said one or more attack positions being of said plurality of spatially related positions, said one or more attack positions being in a specified order;
• a travel path, said travel path comprising an order for traversing said plurality of spatially related positions;
• and
• an initial position, said initial position being that of said plurality of spatially related positions that is first in said travel path;
• receiving an input artefact, said input artefact comprising an instance of said coding frame wherein at least one of said plurality of spatially related positions is filled by said content character;
• identifying an output string length;
• initializing an output string, said output string comprising a plurality of ordered empty slots, said plurality of ordered empty slots being equal in number to said output string length;
• initializing a head index to a first slot of said plurality of ordered empty slots;
• initializing a tail index to a last slot of said plurality of ordered empty slots;
• for said input artefact, traversing said travel path by, for each next position of said plurality of spatially related positions, beginning with said initial position:
• determining whether said next position comprises said location position for any active element of said one or more positioned elements;
• responsive to no active element having said location position at said next position:
• filling that slot of said plurality of ordered empty slots that is identified by said head index with said content character from said next position;
• incrementing said head index forward by one slot of said plurality of ordered empty slots;
• responsive to said head index being equal to said tail index, terminating;
• and
• advancing said next position according to said travel path;
• responsive to said active element having said location position at said next position:
• filling that slot of said plurality of ordered empty slots that is identified by said tail index with said content character from said next position;
• decrementing said tail index backward by one slot of said plurality of ordered empty slots;
• responsive to said head index being equal to said tail index, terminating;
• determining, for said active element, an active attack position by selecting from said one or more attack positions, based on said specified order and on whether each of said one or more attack positions is valid;
• responsive to said active attack position existing for said active element, setting said next position to said active attack position;
• and
• responsive to no active attack position existing for said active element, advancing said next position according to said travel path;
• whereby said output string comprises a decoding of said input artefact;
• wherein said coding frame comprises a planar grid, said grid being eight positions by eight positions in size;
• wherein said one or more positioned elements and said one or more attack positions are defined in accordance with a variant of chess;
• wherein traversing said travel path further comprises evolving at least one of said one or more attack positions and said specified order, based on at least one of said next position and that of said one or more ordered characters that is identified by said tail index;
• wherein said computer-implemented method further comprises decoding an additional data from said input artefact, said additional data comprising a code word, and evolving said set of shared parameters based on said code word;
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• wherein said computer-implemented method operates in a low-resource computing environment.