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Re: Encoding Schemes

From: Haroon Meer <haroon () sensepost com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:38:39 +0200

Hi..

cisspstudy () yahoo com wrote:

CLEARTEXT=ENCODED_TEXT
AAAAAA=C8AFBC
I guess it is a XOR. How do I figure out the key? What is the key?


cleartext XOR key = encodedtext
then
encodedtext XOR cleartext = key

perl -e 'print string1 ^ string2;' should give you what you need

/mh
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