New Encryption Algorithm

An AC sends "BLiND is a brand new encryption algorithm which is fast, and very easy to implement. Check it out at freshmeat. This is... well... good for a laugh at least." Unfortunately you'll have to download the source and take a look at enc.c to get the joke. I think Lotus uses this level of encryption in some of their products...

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Wrong name....

[scotpurl]

They shoulda named it BLoNDe.

And, no, the Lotus security doesn't suck that much.

BLiND in 2 lines of perl

[emag]

I'm too lazy to translate this into 2 lines or less of perl. Maybe someone wants to do so, just for the possible karma?

Seems tr(1) would suffice, too...

<sigh>

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Re:BLiND in 2 lines of perl

[waynem77]

Alright, I'll bite.

$from = "a-z A-Z1-90~\\`!\@#\$\%^\&*()_\\-+={[}]:;\\\"\\',<.>?\ \/|";
$to = "~\\`!\@#\$\%^\&*()_\\-+={[}]:;\\\"\\'<, |.?\\/1-90a-ln-zA-H" . chr(241) . "I-Z~";
while (<>) { eval "tr/$from/$to/"; print }

Notice how both "a" and "|" get mapped to "~", and nothing gets mapped to "m" or ">". Interesting... I think I'm missing one or two more, as well.

(I wish Slash let me use <PRE&gt. This formatting sucks.)

Re:BLiND in 2 lines of perl

[emag]

eval "tr/$from/$to/";

Ick. Why eval tr when you could use the built-in tr/// (or the equivalent, 1-letter-less y///)?

(I just wish slashcode would allow <code> for things like this)
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