commit 106d61dcbc330a71812babd9e851a82b3d5cd088
Author: Josiah Ledbetter <josiah@Josiahs-Mini.localdomain>
Date:   Fri Sep 7 19:37:07 2018 -0500

    Initial commit. Get stuff on github.

diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
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+{
+    "python.pythonPath": "/usr/local/bin/python3"
+}
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+a place to hold my cryptopals attempts and terrible code.
diff --git a/challenge1.py b/challenge1.py
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+from binascii import unhexlify, b2a_base64
+
+# Use the binascii.unhexlify() function to convert from a hex string to bytes. Then use the binascii.b2a_base64() function to convert that to Base64:
+
+result = b2a_base64(unhexlify("49276d206b696c6c696e6720796f757220627261696e206c696b65206120706f69736f6e6f7573206d757368726f6f6d"))
+print(result)
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diff --git a/challenge2.py b/challenge2.py
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+from binascii import unhexlify
+
+# see what each value is unhexlified:
+test = bytearray.fromhex("1c0111001f010100061a024b53535009181c").decode()
+test2 = bytearray.fromhex("686974207468652062756c6c277320657965").decode()
+print(test)
+print(test2)
+
+# if converting from strings, you must convert characters to integers and XOR those instead, and then...unconvert them?
+# example with XORing integers
+input1 = 12345
+input2 = 67890
+xored1 = input1 ^ input2
+print(xored1)
+
+# now prove that worked
+
+print(input1 ^ xored1) # should be = to input2
+
+# now i need to convert strings to integers
+text = "suck myass BITCH"
+numArray = []
+for letter in text:
+    number = ord(letter)
+    numArray.append(number)
+
+print(numArray)
+
+# ok now convert that array of ints back to strings
+letterArray = []
+for number in numArray:
+    letter = chr(number)
+    letterArray.append(letter)
+
+print(letterArray)
+
+# OK DOPE now turn it into a function
+
+def xor_TwoEqualLengthBuffers(arg1, arg2):
+    arg1value = bytearray.fromhex(arg1).decode()
+    arg2value = bytearray.fromhex(arg2).decode()
+
+    numArray1 = []
+    for letter in arg1value:
+        number1 = ord(letter)
+        numArray1.append(number1)
+
+    int1 = int(''.join(str(i) for i in numArray1))
+
+
+    numArray2 = []
+    for letter in arg2value:
+        number2 = ord(letter)
+        numArray2.append(number2)
+    
+    int2 = int(''.join(str(i) for i in numArray2))
+
+
+    xoredValue = int1 ^ int2
+
+
+xor_TwoEqualLengthBuffers("1c0111001f010100061a024b53535009181c", "686974207468652062756c6c277320657965")
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