Fastest bitwise xor between two multibyte binary data variables

Question

What is the fastest way to implementat the following logic:

def xor(data, key):
    l = len(key)

    buff = \"\"
    for i in range(0, len(data)):
        b         


        

Answer 1

Disclaimer:As other posters have said, this is a really bad way to encrypt files. This article demonstrates how to reverse this kind of obfuscation trivially.

first, a simple xor algorithm:

def xor(a,b,_xor8k=lambda a,b:struct.pack("!1000Q",*map(operator.xor,
                    struct.unpack("!1000Q",a),
                    struct.unpack("!1000Q",b)))
        ):
    if len(a)<=8000:
        s="!%iQ%iB"%divmod(len(a),8)
        return struct.pack(s,*map(operator.xor,
            struct.unpack(s,a),
            struct.unpack(s,b)))
    a=bytearray(a)
    for i in range(8000,len(a),8000):
        a[i-8000:i]=_xor8k(
            a[i-8000:i],
            b[i-8000:i])
    a[i:]=xor(a[i:],b[i:])
    return str(a)

secondly the wrapping xor algorithm:

def xor_wrap(data,key,_struct8k=struct.Struct("!1000Q")):
    l=len(key)
    if len(data)>=8000:
        keyrpt=key*((7999+2*l)//l)#this buffer is accessed with whatever offset is required for a given 8k block
        #this expression should create at most 1 more copy of the key than is needed
        data=bytearray(data)
        offset=-8000#initial offset, set to zero on first loop iteration
        modulo=0#offset used to access the repeated key
        for offset in range(0,len(data)-7999,8000):
            _struct8k.pack_into(data,offset,*map(operator.xor,
                _struct8k.unpack_from(data,offset),
                _struct8k.unpack_from(keyrpt,modulo)))
            modulo+=8000;modulo%=l
        offset+=8000
    else:offset=0;keyrpt=key*(len(data)//l+1)#simple calculation guaranteed to be enough
    rest=len(data)-offset
    srest=struct.Struct("!%iQ%iB"%divmod(len(data)-offset,8))
    srest.pack_into(data,offset,*map(operator.xor,
        srest.unpack_from(data,offset),
        srest.unpack_from(keyrpt,modulo)))
    return data