ANNOUNCEMENT changes to encryption repo https://github.com/vindicit/...

Still working on it

WIP much. Such comment niceness.

Just kidding. Good that you have discovered character replacement.

@JoshBent Wouldn't that be a too much to swallow in one bite. If one is interested in cryptography he got to start somewhere.

@joas thank god my last program for this was so bad that I can't even look at it anymore

@JoshBent thank you for being my strongest critic I hope to get that far someday

@VINDIC again, if you are actually interested in encryption implementations, look at things like AES papers, people that are much smarter mathematicians than all of us had a say for a reason

what you have at hand could be reversed after having couple examples (maybe even just one), google around for things like "why not to roll your own crypto" or "reverse custom encryption" etc.

@VINDIC for starters look at things like XOR cipher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... try to implement it

early history "encryption": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13 though clearly not advisable for anything usable, as has been shown even with a much better implementation during war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@VINDIC look my post above, that'll give you a better ground than just replacing random letters

@JoshBent what if I were to youse a base 24 system for replacing

@VINDIC No. Wouldn't make it better.

If you want to have a good introduction into cryptography, you might want to look at the lectures of Christof Paar, a cryptographer at the university of Bochum. He uploaded all of ilhis lectures to YouTube, in German and English (https://m.youtube.com/channel/...).

@sbiewald I am not trying to make a good encryption just one that works

Encryption doesn't work if you can decode it within a thousand tries.
I bet you don't have a way to migitate timing attacks.

@VINDIC What you made, is an encoding (and a very inefficient one). This is not the same as encryption.

@sbiewald please explain the diffrence

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@VINDIC Encoding: Just an alternative representation (like Base64, Hexadecimal, UU-Encoding), without any secrecy.

Encryption: Only a persons with the key used for encryption are able to read the encrypted data.

@sbiewald ok so now I understand encoding is changing text to make it secure

new additions to the repo will be coming soon

@VINDIC No, encoding is literally just a way to represent text differently. If you can simply run a reverse function, it's not secure.

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