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xor-cipher
Simple, reusable and optimized XOR ciphers in Python.
xor-cipher
is a fast implementation of the XOR cipher written using Rust.
Our tests show that it can be 1000x
faster than pure Python implementations.
It has been optimized to breeze through datasets of any size.
Python 3.9 or above is required.
pip
Installing the library with pip
is quite simple:
$ pip install xor-cipher
Alternatively, the library can be installed from source:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/GDPSApp/xor-cipher-python.git
Or via cloning the repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/GDPSApp/xor-cipher-python.git
$ cd xor-cipher-python
$ pip install .
uv
You can add xor-cipher
as a dependency with the following command:
$ uv add xor-cipher
Use the xor
function to perform the simple XOR cipher:
>>> from xor_cipher import xor
>>> xor(b"Hello, world!", 0x42)
b"\n'..-nb5-0.&c"
Use the cyclic_xor
function to perform the cyclic XOR variation:
>>> from xor_cipher import cyclic_xor
>>> cyclic_xor(b"Hello, world!", b"BLOB")
b"\n)#.-`o5->#&c"
There are functions to perform the XOR cipher in-place, on bytearray
instances:
>>> from xor_cipher import xor_in_place
>>> data = bytearray(b"Hello, world!")
>>> xor_in_place(data, 0x42)
>>> data
bytearray(b"\n'..-nb5-0.&c")
You can find the documentation here.
If you need support with the library, you can send an email.
You can find the changelog here.
You can find the Security Policy of xor-cipher
here.
If you are interested in contributing to xor-cipher
, make sure to take a look at the
Contributing Guide, as well as the Code of Conduct.
xor-cipher
is licensed under the MIT License terms. See License for details.
FAQs
Simple, reusable and optimized XOR ciphers in Python.
We found that xor-cipher demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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