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XOR+ text cipher (toy) beta testing?

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:53 pm
by dmg
XOR+ is a text cipher app using the XOR method with multiple transposition, homophonic substitution and obfuscation steps. It is intended for fun and education, NOT SECURITY.

Any feedback on the interface or documentation would be greatly appreciated, along with any bug reports.

XOR+ is opensource freeware, saves no settings and makes no system changes at all. It should be entirely portable and stealth.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/jztdn ... .00.0b.zip

Re: XOR+ text cipher (toy) beta testing?

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 5:59 pm
by Midas
Tested -- working as expected. 8)

After noticing that encryption/decryption can be iterated, maybe that could be made into a feature -- say, a field for the number of times to iterate...

Also, the encryption algorithm should be documented, IMHO.

Re: XOR+ text cipher (toy) beta testing?

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:46 am
by dmg
Thanks for trying it out!

When you say the algorithm should be documented do you mean just a detailed description of the process? That is entirely reasonable... Do you think just including a description file in the zip would be enough?

Re: XOR+ text cipher (toy) beta testing?

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:33 am
by Midas
dmg wrote:When you say the algorithm should be documented do you mean just a detailed description of the process? That is entirely reasonable... Do you think just including a description file in the zip would be enough?
  • Yes (on both counts :)).