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    XTEA


    Introduction

    XTEA is a secure encryption algorithm, though not as secure as RSA or others, that uses a 128bit key and requires very little processing power.

    Make sure you only attempt to encrypt arrays with a size divisible by eight.

    Getting Started

    The following example shows the basic encryption and decryption of a string. When you use the parameterless constructor of the Xtea object, a key is generated for you that you can find in the Key property. If you pass a key to the constructor, it will be used instead.

    using GHI.Utilities;
    using Microsoft.SPOT;
    using System.Text;
    
    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            var xtea = new Xtea();
    
            var encrypted = xtea.Encrypt(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("0123456776543210"));
            var decrypted = xtea.Decrypt(encrypted);
    
            Debug.Print(new string(Encoding.UTF8.GetChars(decrypted))); //should be "0123456776543210"
    
            var keyStr = "0x";
            for (int i = 0; i < Xtea.KeyLength; i++)
                keyStr += xtea.Key[i].ToString("x2");
    
            Debug.Print("The key used was " + keyStr);
        }
    }
    
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