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🔒 Simple perfect xor encryption cipher 🔒

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2015-01-24 · latest 2015-01-24

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  1. …but for some. This is because it chooses bytes from the file (function generate_random_offsets() at https://github.com/pannous/xipher/blob/master/encrypt.c ), then writes both the address of those bytes and the XOR'd value to the result of…
    comment by swehner · 2015-01-24 · in Show HN: Write (almost) perfect encryption in an hour
  2. In regards to this comment: https://github.com/pannous/xipher/blob/b62a3b864d435a1e61066... : /dev/urandom isn't insecure. Both /dev/urandom and /dev/random use CSPRNG. There is a wonderful artical (with diagrams and all) at…
    comment by binwiederhier · 2015-01-24 · in Show HN: Write (almost) perfect encryption in an hour