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So, a whole article just to explain it's a single-character XOR encryption. Smooth.

No, that was the answer.

The article was about how he got there.

He definitely tried too hard.

Author here. Can confirm: you're right.

But I did learn a lot and will surely try this first in the future.

Should I have written on top that, if you're into crypto, you may want to skip to the summary?

A tl;dr is always nice!

Well there is already a summary at the bottom, but I guess I should refer to it at the top. Thanks :)

I enjoyed the article, it was well written

All problems are hard until solved.

I rather enjoyed the article; his analysis and things he tried ahead of finding the solution were interesting to follow.