in reply to Re: Short & Sweet Encryption?
in thread Short & Sweet Encryption?

And if you add a junk prefix, people won't be able to decompress the string if they don't remove the junk prefix first.
Algorithm::Huffman , and Archive::Zip would be good places to start.
I'd recommend Compress::Zlib, which is the actual compressor behind Archive::Zip.

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Re^3: Short & Sweet Encryption?
by sgifford (Prior) on Jul 30, 2006 at 16:50 UTC
    I would limit that to "it will take a little work to decompress the string" or "some people won't be able to decompress the string". It would only take a very slightly sophisticated attacker to bypass that, and it's primarily a security-by-obscurity approach. It may be better than nothing, but it certainly shouldn't be regarded as the same level of security as using a modern encryption algorithm.

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