I didn't write this..

Sascha Lefevre

no I didn't... ..a much younger me wrote this piece of "code" which is bad in so many ways I don't even want to count them:

CString StrEncode(CString str, bool decode)
{
CString map = "S)y³T<.zÖ?tp3~o`u^F}G\\0D_K:>1µ5&|ßJ§ö $E!rÜq-I]W%=Xü´Yl/(78A#dHm@BvQLM'*Pc+2Äxf,ghCnsä;6UO{9a[b4Ne²wjkViRZ°";

short len = map.GetLength();
short add = decode ? len : 0;
short mul = decode ? -1 : 1;
short off = str.GetLength() % len;

CString out;

for(short i=0; iThe only good thing about it is that it served its purpose of weakly obfuscating strings.

Please absolve me :laugh:

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Marc Clifton

Sascha Lefèvre wrote:

Please absolve me

To be forgiven, you must obtain an abacus from ebay and perform the computations of your algorithm by hand with nothing but the abacus. ;)

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raddevus

I fixed it for you : FTFY - rewrote it in C# so you can run it in LINQPad[^] I'll put this out on GitHub as soon as possible. :laugh:

void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine(StrEncode("Here it is", true));
Console.WriteLine(StrEncode("´;µsDUkGäB", false));
}

String StrEncode(String str, bool decode)
{
String map = "S)y³T<.zÖ?tp3~o`u^F}G\\0D_K:>1µ5&|ßJ§ö $E!rÜq-I]W%=Xü´Yl/(78A#dHm@BvQLM'*Pc+2Äxf,ghCnsä;6UO{9a[b4Ne²wjkViRZ°";

int len = map.Length;
int add = decode ? len : 0;
int mul = decode ? -1 : 1;
int off = str.Length % len;

String outMsg = String.Empty;
//Console.WriteLine(map);
for(int i=0; i

Here's the resulting output:

´;µsDUkGäB
Here it is

PIEBALDconsult

Pfft... Dictionaries are so much faster than string searches... :~

Bernhard Hiller

Sascha Lefèvre wrote:

Please absolve me

Et nunc absolvo te ab peccatis tuis. Amen.

Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!

OriginalGriff

And ten Hail Marys.

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Sascha Lefevre

I'll possibly carry this burden forever then :laugh:

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

Sascha Lefevre

I can see you caught fire - maybe we can achieve great things together :laugh:

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

Sascha Lefevre

That's one of those things I didn't even want to start counting..

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

Sascha Lefevre

Thank you :-D

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

raddevus

Yes, this could be bigger than base64 encoding which is far easier to use. :laugh: People using base64 are just lazy. :-D

PIEBALDconsult

And put a pound in the poor box.

Daniel Pfeffer

Sascha Lefèvre wrote:

Please absolve me :laugh:

In order to receive absolution, you must rewrite the entire application in VB6.

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Sascha Lefevre

It might actually end up being better than it is.. :~

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

Rob Grainger

I've actually seen a Caeser Cipher[^] used to encode passwords, so that's not too bad by comparison.

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Sascha Lefevre

;)

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson