Obfuscation of the standard XOR Encryption algorithm

Abstract

XOR Encryption is a popular encryption algorithm that is used in many browsers and it is blatantly simpleand fairly secure. The XOR Encryption algorithm is an example of a Symmetric Encryption algorithm. This means that the same key is used for both encryption and decryption [7]. In the case of XOR Encryption, this is true because XOR is a two-way function which means that the function can easily be undone [6]. In the following paper the standard XOR Encryption algorithm will be introduced along with a modification. The modification comes in the form of creating random permutations of the key.