Re^3: Base64 and byte arrays

If you're going to use string xor, why do it a character at a time? The point of the second snippet was to show how to get an array of bytes for future reference.

And your solution doesn't work. It appends a junk character.

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Re^4: Base64 and byte arrays by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Feb 05, 2009 at 04:38 UTC
If you're going to use string xor, why do it a character at a time? Why indeed? `use MIME::Base64 qw( decode_base64 ); my $orig = decode_base64( $_ ); $orig ^= substr $orig, 1;` [download] And your solution doesn't work. It appends a junk character. joec_'s explaination didn't say what to do with the last byte so I left it in.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Base64 and byte arrays by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 05, 2009 at 05:01 UTC
There are two possibilities. There's a bug resulting in a byte of information leaking. There's an extra byte that serves as a key. The safer bet is the presumption that there is no bug, thus the extra byte is junk. This was confirmed when the OP said my solution worked perfectly.	[reply]