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By vladocar
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Published: Mar 12 2007 / 12:32

XOR Encryption is unique in that it is bidirectional and very simple. Sometimes the very simple is "just enough".
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daniel replied ago:

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You'd have to be a pretty lousy programmer not to be able to rattle of a quickie XOR encryption algorithm. Still, it all has to come from somewhere. :-)

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senfo replied ago:

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Linky no worky for me. Anybody have a mirror?

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daniel replied ago:

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Seems to be working now.

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evarlast complained ago:

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evarlast reported this link as lame on 03/15/2007 @ 12:11:51

There is a mathematical definition of encryption and a difference between obsfucation. This is the later.

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Dan Atkinson replied ago:

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I agree. This isn't encryption at all, since you can apply simple logic to defeat it.

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Dan Atkinson complained ago:

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Dan Atkinson reported this link as inaccurate on 03/19/2007 @ 10:30:46

Not an encryption method.

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indroneel replied ago:

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Firstly, the basic premise of a low risk of "hacking" in an Intranet environment is wrong. Secondly, as has been rightly pointed out by others, this is probably the least secure encryption mechanism, even lower than base64 encoding/decoding as employed by popular services like CVS.

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