XOR Encryption

[coreys]

I'm not sure if anyone has done this before, but I was rather bored so I made a XOR Encryption function with my own additions to get rid of the parts of the ASCII character set that aren't really shown in Graal.

PHP Code:

/*Paramters:
s - string to be encrypted
usechars - boolean determining whether or not it changes ascii values into characters.
key - Encryption key. (Optional)  If left NULL it replaces with the default. s must be shorter or the same length as the encryption key.
*/
public function XOREncrypt(s, usechars, key) {
  if (key == NULL)
    key = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
  temp.replace = "-";
  if (s.length() <= key.length()) {
    temp.out = "";
    for (i=0; i<s.length(); i++) {
      temp.a = getascii(s.charat(i)) xor getascii(key.charat(i));
      if (usechars) {
        if (temp.a > 32 && temp.a != 127) {
          temp.a = char(temp.a);
          if (temp.a = " ")
            temp.a = temp.replace;
        }
        else temp.a = temp.replace;
      }
      temp.out @= temp.a;
    }
    return temp.out;
  }
  else
    return "String too long. (Limit " @ key.length() @ ")";    
} 


Example:

PHP Code:

XOREncrypt("A nice cat", true, NULL); 


Which will return "-b--&#g+(>"

From what I hear, this method is hard, if not impossible to decrypt, and it's rather simple.

[xXziroXx]

Nice one.

[DrakilorP2P]

Originally Posted by coreys

From what I hear, this method is hard, if not impossible to decrypt, and it's rather simple.

Try all possible keys until you find one that works. Message decrypted.

[coreys]

Originally Posted by DrakilorP2P

Try all possible keys until you find one that works. Message decrypted.

I'm fairly certain it's impossible to reverse the xor operator.

[DrakilorP2P]

Originally Posted by coreys

I'm fairly certain it's impossible to reverse the xor operator.

You don't need to reverse it. Either do the above where you try random keys until you stumble upon the correct one or use frequency analysis.

[LoneAngelIbesu]

I just did a simple test, and there's something wrong with this code (I'm not sure what it is). XOR ciphers are solvable via (plaintext) XOR (ciphertext), meaning if I encrypt the encrypted text using the same key, I should get the original text.

PHP Code:

function test() {
  temp.a = XOREncrypt("test string", true, null);
  temp.b = XOREncrypt(temp.a, true, null);
  echo(temp.a);
  echo(temp.b);
} 


Returns:

PHP Code:

5'00e53:-$,
test-strdng 


It seems that it's always 1 letter off.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[coreys]

Yeah, like I said I had to go around some ASCII characters that can't be displayed. So I replaced all those with "-". So, in that sense, you shouldn't be able to decrypt it. If you stick with ASCII characters by setting the second parameter false you really shouldn't be able to.

[LoneAngelIbesu]

Good job, anyways, though. I'm wondering, though, why is it that spaces can't be used? I'm a newbie, so I don't quite understand. I just removed the replacing part of the code, and it encrypts an decrypts just fine; encrypting an encrypted text returns the original text, even with the spaces.

[coreys]

I know, I just didn't like that a lot of the characters wouldn't display correctly.

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by coreys

I know, I just didn't like that a lot of the characters wouldn't display correctly.

You could use an additional Base64 encoding to make the encrypted string printable.

[coreys]

Originally Posted by Loriel

You could use an additional Base64 encoding to make the encrypted string printable.

Ah, true, I hadn't thought of that.

PHP Code:

public function XOREncrypt2(s, key) {
  if (key == NULL)
    key = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
  temp.out = "";
  if (s.length() <= key.length()) {
    for (i=0; i<s.length(); i++) {
      temp.a = getascii(s.charat(i)) xor getascii(key.charat(i));
      temp.out @= char(temp.a);
    }
    return base64encode(temp.out);
  }
  else
    return "String too long. (Limit " @ key.length() @ ")";
} 


This seems to work rather well, actually. Short and sweet.