I know there is a built in xor operator that can be imported in Python. I'm trying to execute the xor encryption/decryption. So far I have: def xor_attmpt(): message = raw_input("Enter message to be ciphered: ") cipher = [] for i in message: cipher.append(bin(ord(i))[2::])#add the conversion of the letters/characters #in your message from ascii to binary withoout the 0b in the front to your ciphered message list cipher = "".join(cipher) privvyKey = raw_input("Enter the private key: ") keydecrypt = [] for j in privvyKey: keydecrypt.append(bin(ord(j))[2::]) #same keydecrypt = "".join(keydecrypt )#same print "key is '{0}'" .format(keydecrypt) #substitute values in string print "encrypted text is '{0}'" .format(cipher) from operator import xor for letter in message: print xor(bool(cipher), bool(keydecrypt)) This: > for letter in message: print xor(bool(cipher), bool(keydecrypt)) is where my python starts to go wrong. The ouput looks like this Enter message to be ciphered: hello Enter the private key: \@154> key is '10111001000000110001110101110100111110' encrypted text is '11010001100101110110011011001101111' False False False False False What I'm messing up on is trying to get these two binary(key and encrypted) to be compared and give true(1) or false(being 0). The xor should then give me a resulting 1 and 0 binary list from comparing the two. Any input? Continue reading...
