Le 16 avr. 07 à 04:23 Matin, William Squires a écrit: > If I remember, Base64 encoding produces a sequence of characters > that are limited to only printable characters, no?
Yes, but scrambling does not necessarily mean having non-printable characters in the result. > And neither > reversing, nor ones-complement will change the character frequency of > the resultant cyphertext, so it's not much better than an ordinary > substitution cypher. I agree, but in Lennox's post, he said he wanted a "limited" scrambling. I quote his question: "so that it is not easily read if opened by any text editor app" For me, that means just that a normal user cannot read the file using TextEdit. > Combine it with the rotating-key XOR to cause > the output range to include a more well distributed set so as to > deter easy substitution hacks. Yes, you can make your own, also. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
