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Why is my decryption function not working?

I created a function to encrypt and decrypt messages. the encrypting works fine. but when I try to log encrypted Hello World! it just logs H. Fixed it, i edited the encoding system to place a – between chars and the decoding system to just split the message at – and check if the element starts wit…

Why are atob and btoa not reversible

I’m trying to find a simple way to record and temporarily obfuscate answers to “quiz” questions I’m writing in Markdown. (I’ll tell the students the quiz answers during the presentation, so I’m not looking for any kind of secure encryption.) I thought I could use atob(&#821…