Ares currently uses strings in decoders, checkers, and the searcher. This causes a problem when attempting to add support for modern encryption like XOR as results will not be in UTF-8 strings but bytes.
Furthermore Ares should not assume that results from decoders will be in UTF-8. They could be in other encodings like UTF-16, UTF-32, etc.
The solution is to refactor Ares to use bytes for everything. This will allow us to implement modern encryption like XOR, AES, DES, etc. and support for other text encodings.
Ares currently uses strings in decoders, checkers, and the searcher. This causes a problem when attempting to add support for modern encryption like XOR as results will not be in UTF-8 strings but bytes.
Furthermore Ares should not assume that results from decoders will be in UTF-8. They could be in other encodings like UTF-16, UTF-32, etc.
The solution is to refactor Ares to use bytes for everything. This will allow us to implement modern encryption like XOR, AES, DES, etc. and support for other text encodings.