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John H Woods Silver badge

Re: Honest Question

"Yes, there's also some shuffling and such. " -- JeffyPooh

This "shuffling and such" is far more critical to the cipher than the use of the XOR function. If this did not happen, then a plaintext attack vulnerability would exist. None of what you have quoted supports the statement you made, which I rejected, that "The 'serious' encryption is universally the XOR function"

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