From c1240b472934f0b7649922722fe0d61c0c1c6cac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rsiddharth <s@ricketyspace.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 20:15:58 -0400
Subject: challenge: do challenge 5

* challenge/c05.go: Implement challenge 5.
* cryptopals.go (main): Add handling to run challenge 5.
* lib/hex.go (BytesToHexStr): New function.
* lib/xor.go (RepeatingXOR): New function.
---
 lib/xor.go | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/xor.go')

diff --git a/lib/xor.go b/lib/xor.go
index ae2bd12..0d1f3d7 100644
--- a/lib/xor.go
+++ b/lib/xor.go
@@ -21,3 +21,33 @@ func FixedXOR(a, b string) string {
 	}
 	return cs
 }
+
+// Both 'data' and 'key' need to be plain ascii string.
+func RepeatingXOR(data, key string) string {
+	xs := ""
+	if len(data) < 1 || len(key) < 1 {
+		return xs
+	}
+
+	// data in bytes
+	db := []byte(data)
+
+	// key in bytes
+	dk := []byte(key)
+
+	lk := len(key)
+	for i, ki := 0, 0; i < len(db); i++ {
+		if ki == lk {
+			ki = 0
+		}
+
+		// xor a byte
+		eb := db[i] ^ dk[ki]
+
+		// append to result
+		xs += string(eb)
+
+		ki += 1
+	}
+	return xs
+}
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