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Re: How to XOR a byte output?

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Subject Re: How to XOR a byte output?
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:

> Let's just guess that you want to xor with the byte value 0xAA. We can
> do that fairly simply, using integer operations.
>
>>>> data = b'$//W?\xc0\x829\xa2\xb9\x13\x8c\xd5{\\'
>>>> bytes(b ^ 0xAA for b in data)
> b'\x8e\x85\x85\xfd\x95j(\x93\x08\x13\xb9&\x7f\xd1\xf6'
>
> Well, that doesn't look much more intelligible.

This looks clearer:

   >>> code = b'a0\xed\xf0Z\x15]g^\xce3x'
   >>> key = b')U\x81\x9c55*\x08,\xa2WY'
   >>> bytes(c ^ k for c, k in zip(code, key)).decode()
   'Hello world!'


Marko

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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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