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Originally Posted by Gunderak
Dreams and spirits, ded.
Also since you're saying it has almost no security, if I encrypt a string for you, would you be happy to try and decrypt it?
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Please do, unless you have a one-time-pad, meaning you have a key the same size as the string you're encrypting, this type of encryption is extremely easy to break. It's basically a crappy version of a XOR cipher. It can be broken with simple frequency analysis and key shifting.
However, if it is a one-time-pad, then this type of encryption is impossible to break without brute forcing. With that being said, one-time-pad's are really bad for networking and it generally means that a new key has to be transmitted over the wire, which can be intercepted anyway.