Thanks for the suggestions,

I realize that a substitution encryption in and of itself is very weak. Its only intended to be one step of the encryption process. This is largely a project that I'm doing for amusement to see how secure I can get a piece of data.

To compare the strings I'm simply loading each line of each file into an array and saying if linex of file1 doesn't equal linex of file2 then print out the line number. Nothing is printing out even though the files are a slightly different size. Its a rather peculiar issue. I think it has something to do with perl reads and prints non ascii characters. Is there a way to just make perl read and print 0's and 1's instead of entire symbols? I'm rather new to perl and haven't been able to find this...

Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: Non-ASCii character encryption by ROFL
in thread Non-ASCii character encryption by ROFL

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