Question

I need to XOR a string/text in PHP the base64 encode it, but something goes wrong:

<?php

$mustget = 'Kw4SCQ==';
$string = 'Josh';

echo("Must get: " . $mustget . "\n");
echo("We got: " . base64_encode(xor_this($string)) . "\n");

function xor_this($text) {
    $key = 'frtkj';
    $i = 0;
    $encrypted = '';
    foreach (str_split($text) as $char) {
        $encrypted .= chr(ord($char) ^ ord($key{$i++ % strlen($key)}));
    }
    return $encrypted;
}

?>

I get the following result, but I need to get the “$mustget” one:

Must get: Kw4SCQ==
We got: LB0HAw==

What do I do wrong?

Answer 1

$mustget = 'Kw4SCQ==';

$key = 'frtkj';
$key_length = strlen($key);

$encoded_data = base64_decode($mustget);

$result = '';

$length = strlen($encoded_data);
for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
    $tmp = $encoded_data[$i];

    for ($j = 0; $j < $key_length; $j++) {
        $tmp = chr(ord($tmp) ^ ord($key[$j]));
    }

    $result .= $tmp;
}

echo $result; // Josh

http://ideone.com/NSIe7K

I’m sure you can reverse it and create a function, that “crypts” the data 😉