Title: Question regarding obfuscation method
Last modified: May 20, 2019

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# Question regarding obfuscation method

 *  Resolved [Bart Kuijper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spartelfant/)
 * (@spartelfant)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-regarding-obfuscation-method/)
 * Hello, I hope you’re having a wonderful day!
 * By coincidence I stumbled across this native WordPress function: `antispambot(
   $email_address, $hex_encoding )` introduced in WP version 0.71. I was curious
   why you opted for a custom implementation of seemingly similar functionality 
   in your plugin. Does your code have better performance, does it produce better
   obfuscation, etc? No criticism, I love your plugin, just trying to satisfy my
   curiosity 🙂
 * Kind regards,
 * Bart Kuijper
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fquestion-regarding-obfuscation-method%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Till Krüss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tillkruess/)
 * (@tillkruess)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-regarding-obfuscation-method/#post-11551920)
 * I had that in the readme in the past, but removed it at some point.
 * [https://github.com/tillkruss/email-encoder/issues/1](https://github.com/tillkruss/email-encoder/issues/1)
 * > This function is slightly faster than WP’s built-in antispambot() and uses 
   > additional hexadecimal entities.
 *  Thread Starter [Bart Kuijper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spartelfant/)
 * (@spartelfant)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-regarding-obfuscation-method/#post-11564249)
 * Thank you kindly for taking the time to satisfy my curiosity 😊

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 * Last reply from: [Bart Kuijper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spartelfant/)
 * Last activity: [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-regarding-obfuscation-method/#post-11564249)
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