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Old 10-16-2015, 08:25 AM   #13
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by MGlitch View Post
Only issue I can see with scrambling is someone reversing it and thus getting whatever books users post for free.
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From looking at the sample, I don't think the scrambling is based on the same letters being transposed; rather it looks like a random character is generated, with the only proviso being that words stay the same length.
Just to confirm, there is no "scrambling key", hence no "de-scrambling key" either. Every alpha-character is scrambled independently of every other alpha-character. So unless anyone strongly suspects that the Python random module isn't really random then I don't think that should be a problem, but I don't have any cryptography skills

At the moment punctuation, spaces and digits 0-9 are left unscrambled.

In addition, every alpha-character retains its upper/lower case, so that paragraphs and word-wrapping look "realistic" ... but possibly Klingon-esque.
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