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by 430gj9j 4942 days ago
The key is the same length as the data, making this a one-time pad rather than XOR encryption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
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"rather than XOR encryption."

Nobody never mentioned that it used xor..?

XOR encryption is a one-time pad encryption over an alphabet of two letters, you might be thinking of something like a Vigenère cipher applied to binary data.