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- 'BasEncrypt: Encryption/decryption routine
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- 'This file can be freely used and copied for others so long as the file
- 'is not changed in any way.
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- 'Purpose:
- '''''''''
- 'Someone asked on the MSSYS forum on CompuServe for a simple encryption routine
- 'and the old XOR method was recommended.
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- 'The accompanying routine is a lot more secure and just about as easy.
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- 'Algorithm:
- '''''''''''
- 'The idea is to set up a look-up substitution string for the ASCII character
- 'set, and replace each character in your text with the character assigned to
- 'that character's ASCII number position in the look-up string.
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- 'In the sample code, the ASCII character set is simply reversed in the
- 'encryption string ("e$"). In actual use, you should assign the characters to
- 'the string more randomly. You should probably NOT change control characters
- '[eg: leave the 13th character in the substitution string as CHR$(13)]
- 'so that you do not lose the ability to do INPUTs.
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- DEFINT A -Z: E$ = SPACE$(255) : D$ = SPACE$(255)
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- FOR I = 1 TO 255: MID$(E$, 256-I, 1) = CHR$(I): NEXT
- FOR I = 1 TO 255: MID$(D$, ASC( MID$(E$,I))) = CHR$(I): NEXT
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- LINE INPUT "Enter text to encrypt: "; T$
- FOR I = 1 TO LEN(T$)
- MID$(T$, I, 1) = MID$(E$, ASC( MID$(T$, I)))
- NEXT
- PRINT T$
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- INPUT "Ready to decrypt"; x$
- FOR I = 1 TO LEN(T$)
- MID$(T$, I, 1) = MID$(D$, ASC( MID$(T$, I)))
- NEXT
- PRINT T$