in reply to Encrypt/decrypt string in C and Perl

I've never really programmed in C, but I tried the following:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $str = shift; my $key = join q(), map chr rand 255, 0 .. 255; print "$key\n"; my $encrypted = $str ^ substr($key,0,length($str)); print "$encrypted\n";

#include<stdio.h> int main () { char key[255], string[255]; gets(key); gets(string); for (int i=0;string[i] != 0;i++) { printf("%c", key[i] ^ string[i]); } return 0; }

The ^ operator doesn't seem to work for strings, so I had to iterate the strings character by character.

It seems to work sometimes , I'm not sure why not always. Maybe you can get 0 as a result of the xor somewhere in the middle of a string? Or a newline in the middle of the key? But it should get you started.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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Re^2: Encrypt/decrypt string in C and Perl
by kepler (Scribe) on Sep 18, 2016 at 13:38 UTC
    It seems a very good start!!! Thanks :)