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		xrd on May 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM Wouldn't it have been better to use rot13 instead of this? `0xa1 is calculated as Washes left XOR 0x50`

kilotaras on May 30, 2022 [–]

rot13 is text cipher (for a-z). XOR 0x50 is a number operation.

xrd on May 30, 2022 | [–]

I know, I'm just making a joke that this looks like an attempt to hide the value behind a simple operation, and rot13 is the ultimate low cost way to do that.

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