Re: Encrypt a number

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:22:18 -0400
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Angelo Chen wrote:

On Mar 25, 9:35 am, Arne Vajh?j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

angelochen...@gmail.com wrote:

I'm looking for a way to encrypt a number into an alpha string, the
result should be:
1) reversible
2) same or less size of the original, say: given 123456789, result
might be: asbQqzW
Any idea how to achieve this?

How secure should it be ?

A lot of the standard encryption algorithms may increase
size due to rounding length up to multipla of block size.

If obfuscation is good enough then:

     public static String enc(String s) {
         return Integer.toString(Integer.parseInt(s, 10), 36);
     }
     public static String dec(String s) {
         return Integer.toString(Integer.parseInt(s, 36), 10);
     }

 > Thanks, this meets my need, but is there a way that I can specify a
 > table, say,
 > 0123456789abcdefghijklmnpqrstuvwxyzWXYZ

See below for some quickly written code.

Arne

===================================

     private static String DIGITS =
"0123456789abcdefghijklmnpqrstuvwxyzWXYZ";
     private static int fromAny(String s, int radix) {
         int res = 0;
         char[] sa = s.toCharArray();
         int sign = 1;
         for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
             if(sa[i] != '-') {
                 res = res * radix + DIGITS.indexOf(sa[i]);
             } else {
                 sign = -1;
             }
         }
         return sign * res;
     }
     private static String toAny(int i, int radix) {
         if(i >= 0) {
             String res = "";
             int tmp = i;
             while (tmp > 0) {
                 res = DIGITS.toCharArray()[tmp % radix] + res;
                 tmp = tmp / radix;
             }
             return res;
         } else {
             return "-" + toAny(-i, radix);
         }
     }
     public static String enc(String s) {
         return toAny(fromAny(s, 10), 36);
     }
     public static String dec(String s) {
         return toAny(fromAny(s, 36), 10);
     }

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