From c39815523054760fae72617a85bb24e9eeae645f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Guymon Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 10:56:27 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index be7271d..20dfd2d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ A simple way to obfuscate ids and text. Useful when you have to make ids visible to users. Integrates directly with Rails 3. -The goal is to make simple obfuscated ids that are not huge. This is achieved by using -Blowfish and encrypting a single block. This produces a nice id of 11 characters (11 -since the trailing _=_ is removed by default), for example `3NINgAbOhPc`. The caveat is, -the id must be within _99,999,999_, e.g. a max length of _8_. +The goal is to make simple obfuscated ids that are not huge. This is achieved by using an +implementation of Blowfish +and encrypting a single block. This produces a nice id of 11 characters (11 since the +trailing _=_ is removed by default), for example `3NINgAbOhPc`. The caveat is, the id +must be within _99,999,999_, e.g. a max length of _8_. -Text can be obfuscated using Blowfishes string encryption as well, but than it produces +Text can be obfuscated using Blowfish's string encryption as well, but than it produces output that is larger than the elegant 11 character from single block encryption. https://github.com/mguymon/obfuscate