Does this mean that the human simulating the Chinese is a Chinese p-zombie?
If you want to up the geekery factor to eleven, you could probably think of the Chinese room as a sort of homomorphic encryption.
[1] For instance, most recent search in my Slack for Searle returns: "There are days when all i do is purely syntactic copy-pasting into stack overflow and copy-pasting back into my terminal, with absolutely no understanding of the underlying semantics of my actions, and have such surprisingly impressive results, that i've become more and more convinced by Searle."