I'm trying to figure out how take the XOR of every byte in my string:
string = "\xa3\xb4\x55"
with 100000 (binary). How would I do this in python? I've tried doing this:
newString = ""
for n in string:
new = n ^ 0x20
newString.append(new)
I need the output of newString to look like
output = "\x83\x94\x75"
but i'm currently not getting that :-( any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
You'll need to convert each character to its charcode, then perform the xor on the charcodes. After that you then convert the result back to a character, which results in something like this:
string = "\xa3\xb4\x55"
newString = ""
for n in string:
new = chr(ord(n) ^ 0x20)
newString += new
print(newString)
You need to convert to number using ord(..) and then back to a character using chr(..).
>>> "".join(chr(ord(x) ^ 0x20) for x in "\xa3\xb4\x55")
'\x83\x94u' # 'u' => '\x75'
