On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:16:45 -0800, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :
FWIW, XOR encryption is more like XOR obfuscation. It doesn't actually
encrypt, at least not the naive approach to it.
It depends. I just finished a project which I will be permitted to
release into the public domain in a year which uses one time pads,
which XOR messages with strings of truly random bits.
The only way you can crack it is to crack the machine at either end or
intercept the key transfer. You can't do it just by studying
messages.
If the plain-text are formed poorly (eg. plain ascii text, or contains