need encryption algorithm

[Paul Rubin]

h.e.w.frater at cs.cf.ac.uk (Hugh) writes:
> I fully understand what everyone is going on about with regard to me
> saying that the quality of the encryption is not that important. The
> fact of the matter is, I'm only writing the software for my 1st year
> university project and in reality it's only a theoretical system, no
> one is actually going to use it. I'm using the exercise to learn
> python and basic database design although to be quite honest I loathe
> internet programming. Don't know why, just don't like it.

In that case just prefix the string with "EEEE" to signify that it's
encrypted, and remove the EEEE on "decryption".