How to XOR a byte output?

Fri Apr 15 07:46:00 EDT 2016

On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 9:18:37 PM UTC+8, durgadevi1 wrote:
> Hi all, 
>> I have a doubt regarding a problem.
>> First, I am required to read a given file.
>>> The output from the file is given below:
>> b'$//W?\xc0\x829\xa2\xb9\x13\x8c\xd5{\'
>>> I used the type() to identify the class and its a byte class.
>> I saw many \x and thought it might be hex.
>>> So, I used binascii.hexlify() and got the following output:
> b'242f2f573fc08239a2b9138cd57b'
>> Now, this output is being encrypted and I need to perform an XOR operation on it in order to retrieve a secret message.
>> But, I'm not sure how to code the XOR operation. How do I code that?
>> Thank you.
>> PS: I'm not sure if I have done any mistake along the way. That's why I have mentioned all the steps that I've done. Let me know if I have done any step wrongly. :)

Ok thanks guys :)