On 3/14/06, Matthew Webber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a side note, remember that that xor-ing a key with a message is trivial > to break (it's just a variation on the Vigenere cipher first published in > 1568). So don't use if for any real applications.
Yes - at the moment this is just a way for me to begin to get my head around how cryptography works from anabsolutely ludicrously basic position. This all started because I couldn't get my head around the difference between an encryption algorithm and the key. I thought that by writing my own, I would work it out! S. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
