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[–] corytheboyd@kbin.social 82 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The encryption: base64 encoding

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Nah, you just XOR the data with itself and it becomes uncrackable.

Also after encryption like this the result can be compressed down to 4 bytes as long as the data is not larger than around 4Gb, 8 bytes if you need more.

[–] LostXOR@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are truly a mastermind.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

What an excellent username for such a chain of comments

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