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Re: Hiding Test



On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Tani Wallach wrote:

> Process the string by subtracting 1 from the first letter (treat it as an 
> unsigned integer), 2 from the second letter, etc.
> 
> Decoding the example (by subtracting according to the second line - excuse
> me if there is a mistake in my hex arithmetic - the answer is correct,
> but the top line might be off a bit) gives the "string" in the third line.

No good, can be easily cracked using strace to check exactly where it
happens (since the write() system call will show the actual string after
it had been decoded).

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