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+## Encrypt text!
+This repo uses php to encrypt and decrypt text. Encrypted text is 
+downloaded into a text file, which stores all relevent information in 
+XML.
+To decrypt, upload the file in decrypt.php and type in the encryption 
+key. The contents of the txt file are obtained and used along with the 
+key to decrypt the original text.