Added an XOR cipher (TheAlgorithms#135)

LethargicLeprechaun · itsvinayak · web-flow · commit 4be7a85fd396 · 2020-06-23T10:17:44.000+05:30
* Added an XOR cipher

* Rename xor_cipher.js to XORCipher.js

* Update XORCipher.js

Co-authored-by: vinayak &lt;itssvinayak@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/Ciphers/XORCipher.js b/Ciphers/XORCipher.js
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+/**
+ * The XOR cipher is a type of additive cipher.
+ * Each character is bitwise XORed with the key.
+ * We loop through the input string, XORing each
+ * character with the key.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Encrypt using an XOR cipher
+ * @param {String} str - String to be encrypted
+ * @param {Number} key - key for encryption
+ * @return {String} encrypted string
+ */
+
+function XOR (str, key) {
+  let result = ''
+  for (const elem of str) {
+    result += String.fromCharCode(elem.charCodeAt(0) ^ key)
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+const encryptedString = XOR('test string', 32)
+console.log('Encrypted: ', encryptedString)
+const decryptedString = XOR(encryptedString, 32)
+console.log('Decrypted: ', decryptedString)
