On 14/03/06, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's something you might find useful they've just started a series
> on cryptography on this site, you can read them or listen to a
> podcast.
>
D'oh! Would help if I actually stuck the link in
http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm#30
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> Yes - at the moment this is just a way for me to begin to get my head
> around how cryptography works from anabsolutely ludicrously basic
> position. This all started because I couldn't get my head around the
> difference between an encryption algorithm and the key. I thought that
> by writing
> As a side note, remember that that xor-ing a key with a message is
> trivial to break (it's just a variation on the Vigenere cipher first
> published in 1568). So don't use if for any real applications.
Hi Matthew,
Counterpoint: think of "one-time pads".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-
On 3/14/06, Steve Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The idea is to unpack four single characters as a single 4-byte integer.
>
> That's really useful, thanks, as I was planning to iterate over each
> letter and call ord()
Ok, so experimentin
On 3/14/06, Matthew Webber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a side note, remember that that xor-ing a key with a message is trivial
> to break (it's just a variation on the Vigenere cipher first published in
> 1568). So don't use if for any real applications.
Yes - at the moment this is just a way
As a side note, remember that that xor-ing a key with a message is trivial
to break (it's just a variation on the Vigenere cipher first published in
1568). So don't use if for any real applications.
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On 3/14/06, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The idea is to unpack four single characters as a single 4-byte integer.
That's really useful, thanks, as I was planning to iterate over each
letter and call ord()
> This kind of transformation is reversable:
Highly useful. Thanks very much in
> "Hello Tutors!" could be split into:
>
> "Hell" "o Tut" "ors!"
>
> and xor'd with "beer"
>
> I think I understand how xor works (thanks to an earlier post) but I'm
> not sure how to iterate over each letter in a string. What is the
> recommended way to do this?
The xor bitwise operator works wi
