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# 8  
Old 02-19-2013
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Originally Posted by DGPickett
Well, encoding usually means taking 6 bits at a time of the binary and encoding them in some of the innocuous ascii valuse between ' ' and '~', for instance adding them to '!'. Hex is just a 4 bit version of the same. Nobody has been desperate enough to find a way to encode using 96 characters for 6.5 bits a character. Smilie Here is an example of what a hacker sees if you compress plain text and then convert it to hex:
Code:
$ echo hidden data string |bzip2|od -x
0000000 425a 6839 3141 5926 5359 e937 8426 0000
0000020 0551 8000 1040 0026 e11c 0020 0031 0340
0000040 d029 a635 3c45 9ac0 17b9 7f4d 8256 68bb
0000060 9229 c284 8749 bc21 3000
0000071

Encoding 4 bits is easy:
Code:
$ vim hexify 
 
#include <stdio.h>
main(){
int c ;
int o ;
int llen = 0;
 while ( EOF != ( c = getchar())){
   putchar( '0' + ( c & 15 ));
   putchar( '0' + ( c >> 4 ));
   if ( 70 < ( llen += 2 )){
        putchar( '\n' );
        llen = 0 ;
    }
  }
 if ( llen ) putchar( '\n' );
}
~
~
~
"mysrc/hexify.c" 21 lines, 264 characters 
$ mycc hexify
$ echo hidden data string | bzip2 | hexify
24:586931314956235959>734862000050150800010400621><10002001330040=926:53
<354:90<719;?7=4286586;;29922<487894<;1203
$

It seems bzip2 expands small things a lot!
i read this multiple times but i cant seem to understand. let me break this down in my simple terms and hopefully you can help me understand what you're doing it.

say i have a script that contains:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

echo "You are welcome"
echo "You are the greatest"

Now this script is named
Code:
aboutme

I need to send this script to a user, but i dont want this user to be able to view what's in aboutme.

when i zip up aboutme and i send it to the user, i want to make sure all that the user needs to do, in order to run this script will be:

Code:
unzip aboutme.zip
./aboutme

how can your encryption method make this feasible?

Code:
uuencode aboutme.uu

./aboutme.uu ?

# 9  
Old 02-20-2013
In place of a shell script, you deliver a C program that has the shell script, compressed and uuencoded, in a static string variable, which it runs by popen( "uudecode | gunzip | sh", "w" ) and writing the encrypted script to the pipe. The C program never changes but in the string variable and name, to run any number of scripts. If there are command line variables, you need to move them from argv to quoted on the popen command line, or restructure the script for them to arrive on stdin.

You could even just put the script in the string variable as hex and un-hex it as you write the pipe, so you need no uudecode or gunzip. The hexification means it is not obvious to the 'string' command.
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