Here's another....file I/O difficulties.

[Moneo]

......I would, but the guy I used to send it to is really busy - actually, you probably know him, he hangs around here. I knew him as Neo, but me may have changed his name.
But how does one go about cracking a regulare one-character XOR cipher? I suppose it's a bit like doing "Cryptograms", but what about executable files? It's gotta be a nightmare cracking those.

Neo hasn't posted here since the end of November 2005.

I don't know what you mean by "a regular one-character XOR cipher". Actually, I have never spent any time at all trying to crack any encryption algorithms.

I have only had to implement encryption 2 or 3 times in 44 years of experience. I used encryption packages, like DES and Public Key, a few other times.

Encryption algorithms are like sort algorithms. You can spend tons of time fooling around with them, but in reality you will find very limited usage for them in applications that you get paid for.
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