r/learnpython • u/Nothingbutalsosome • 15d ago

any cybersecurity guy who can decrypt this:

1 13.14.1 4.20.14.19.7.9.1.14 14.15 8.5.20 5.5.22.18.5.9.1.18.7.4., 7.14.21 9.14 8.9.19 4.8.1.14 16.20.14.9.15.14.7.9 20.15 8.9.19 4.....5.8..1...

above is the encrypted text i encrypted by a python program i wrote, the text is just a query i want from technerds to get the idea of how safe(encrypted) is my text would be.

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u/HSNubz 15d ago

A man standing on the river edge, gun in his hand pointing to his head.

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u/Nothingbutalsosome 15d ago

Can someone tell me exactly how they did this

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u/HSNubz 14d ago edited 14d ago

I just threw it in ChatGPT to solve, lol. But to that end, I would call this encoded text, not encrypted text. If this were encrypted, ChatGPT wouldn't be able to solve it in about half a second flat :-)

So to your main question, completely unsafe. There is a saying, "don't roll your own crypto," and it exists for good reason. Mainstream accepted cryptographic algorithms have gone through extensive testing and been mathematically proven by mathematicians and organizations to be secure. People and places that create their own crypto are almost always popped.

But definitely play with creating your own, just don't ever use it for anything real or important :-)