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| Date | 2016-04-14 01:32 -0700 |
| References | <387506b1-b645-4907-a45c-81a8c3043099@googlegroups.com> |
| Message-ID | <625b8dac-16df-4075-ae4e-4344c1c5a4d3@googlegroups.com> (permalink) |
| Subject | Re: How to XOR a byte output? |
| From | durgadevi1 <srirajarajeswaridevikrupa@gmail.com> |
On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 9:18:37 PM UTC+8, durgadevi1 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a doubt regarding a problem.
>
> First, I am required to read a given file.
>
>
> The output from the file is given below:
>
> b'$//W?\xc0\x829\xa2\xb9\x13\x8c\xd5{\'
>
>
> I used the type() to identify the class and its a byte class.
>
> I saw many \x and thought it might be hex.
>
>
> So, I used binascii.hexlify() and got the following output:
> b'242f2f573fc08239a2b9138cd57b'
>
> Now, this output is being encrypted and I need to perform an XOR operation on it in order to retrieve a secret message.
>
> But, I'm not sure how to code the XOR operation. How do I code that?
>
> Thank you.
>
> PS: I'm not sure if I have done any mistake along the way. That's why I have mentioned all the steps that I've done. Let me know if I have done any step wrongly. :)
Ok thank you very much for your replies :)
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How to XOR a byte output? durgadevi1 <srirajarajeswaridevikrupa@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 06:18 -0700
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 23:29 +1000
Re: How to XOR a byte output? durgadevi1 <srirajarajeswaridevikrupa@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 06:51 -0700
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 00:31 +1000
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-04-13 08:33 -0700
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-04-13 17:27 +0300
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 09:30 -0600
Re: How to XOR a byte output? durgadevi1 <srirajarajeswaridevikrupa@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 01:49 -0700
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-14 11:16 +0200
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-04-14 12:18 +0300
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Chris Juried <cjuried@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-14 23:05 +0000
Re: How to XOR a byte output? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-04-15 08:06 -0400
Re: How to XOR a byte output? alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-04-13 16:15 +0000
[OT] A doubt about a doubt, was Re: How to XOR a byte output? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-13 18:59 +0200
Re: [OT] A doubt about a doubt, was Re: How to XOR a byte output? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 18:54 -0700
Re: [OT] A doubt about a doubt Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-14 14:26 +0200
Re: How to XOR a byte output? durgadevi1 <srirajarajeswaridevikrupa@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 01:32 -0700
Re: How to XOR a byte output? durgadevi1 <srirajarajeswaridevikrupa@gmail.com> - 2016-04-15 04:46 -0700
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