Stephen Reese

Decoding XOR payload using first few bytes as key

I recently came across the need to decode an exclusive or (XOR) payload. In my case, the key to de-obfuscating the traffic was the first three bytes of each packets payload. While it is trivial to decode each payload, it was not reasonable for a large number of packets. For …

Pseudo Gmail address obfuscation

I was hunting around for a way to create email aliases for mailing-lists and whatnot. It is a little disappointing to learn that there is not away to create true aliases with Google’s Gmail. You can create aliases if using Google’s hosted application service but I do not …