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- From: brett@racerx.micro.ti.com (Brett L. Huber)
- Subject: Re: String Encryption
- Message-ID: <1996Feb21.174407.20730@newshost.micro.ti.com>
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- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:44:07 GMT
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- Malcolm Smart (MALCOLM.SMART@CONOCO.DUPONT.COM) wrote:
- > Has anybody out there got any small routines that I can apply to strings
- > which will effectively encrypt them (and decrypt!). It's not a matter of
- > state security so it doesn't have to be that secure, just make it
- > unreadable.
-
- It really depends on what level of "unreadability" you want. Who are
- you protecting the data from? If you aren't protecting a secret, try
- "rot13," which translates A->N, B->O, ... Z->M.
-
- For an introduction to cryptographic techniques, try the sci.crypt FAQ:
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/sci/crypt/top.html
-
- Brett Huber
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