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		seanhandley on Nov 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is jus... XOR isn't insecure per se. What I'd like to know is how this "random string" is created in the first place

SideburnsOfDoom on Nov 27, 2012 [–]

It looks like the phrase "RANDOM_STRING" should be taken quite literally. That is the random string. Perhaps some code was supposed to substitute in something else, and it failed quietly.

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