Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
I've watched this thread, and apparently no one has yet noticed that this is just XOR 'encryption'.
Anyone with a little cryptology background could break this in 5 minutes.
...cryptology? heck, anyone that has (barf) read any RAID5 concepts materials could :-)
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