Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:05:16 -0700 From: Anonymous User <nobody@c2.org> Subject: Stupid XOR Question

ok dumb questions here.........

how do i xor a simple string of plaintext?

In C, you open file f and while (((c = getc(stdin))!=EOF)&&((d = getc(f))!=EOF)) putc(c^d, stdout) ; If I remember correctly, Adam Back <aba@dcs.exeter.ac.uk> has a signature block for the full C program to do this. It's that tiny. In a way, that program is better than RSA in 3 lines of PERL. It's provably unbreakable (provided the ranno source, f, is used only once and is truly random). +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/home.html | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' | +----------------------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison -+