Encryption, as a process, indicates the encoding of a message, rendering it unreadable or inaccessible to those unauthorized to decipher it. To consider glitch as a form of encryption, we render the plaintext of the body as cyphertext. Encryption offers a mode of privacy; encoding of content creates secure passageways for radical production. Glitches as encrypted (machinic, social, cultural) material remind us that there are gaps and hidden histories, parts of the file that cannot be heard and stories that will never be known to certain audiences. Through this encryption, the glitch creates a new vernacular, one that allows for new modes of signification