Simple (but good) Message Encryption?

Just to update this, here's an implementation in JavaScript. Just needed some minor tweaks for Espruino:

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/*  Block TEA (xxtea) Tiny Encryption Algorithm         (c) Chris Veness 2002-2014 / MIT Licence  */
/*   - http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/te­a-block.html                                              */
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/*  Algorithm: David Wheeler & Roger Needham, Cambridge University Computer Lab                   */
/*             http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/papers/djw-r­mn/djw-rmn-tea.html (1994)                 */
/*             http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/djw3/x­tea.ps (1997)                              */
/*             http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/djw3/x­xtea.ps (1998)                             */
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/**
 * Tiny Encryption Algorithm
 *
 * @namespace
 */
var Tea = {};

/**
 * Encrypts text using Corrected Block TEA (xxtea) algorithm.
 *
 * @param   {string} plaintext - String to be encrypted (multi-byte safe).
 * @param   {string} password - Password to be used for encryption (1st 16 chars).
 * @returns {string} Encrypted text (encoded as base64).
 */
Tea.encrypt = function(plaintext, password) {
    plaintext = String(plaintext);
    password = String(password);

    if (plaintext.length == 0) return('');  // nothing to encrypt

    //  v is n-word data vector; converted to array of longs from UTF-8 string
    var v = Tea.strToLongs(plaintext);
    //  k is 4-word key; simply convert first 16 chars of password as key
    var k = Tea.strToLongs(password.slice(0,16));
    var n = v.length;

    v = Tea.encode(v, k);

    // convert array of longs to string
    var ciphertext = Tea.longsToStr(v);

    // convert binary string to base64 ascii for safe transport
    return btoa(ciphertext);
};


/**
 * Decrypts text using Corrected Block TEA (xxtea) algorithm.
 *
 * @param   {string} ciphertext - String to be decrypted.
 * @param   {string} password - Password to be used for decryption (1st 16 chars).
 * @returns {string} Decrypted text.
 */
Tea.decrypt = function(ciphertext, password) {
    ciphertext = String(ciphertext);
    password = String(password);

    if (ciphertext.length == 0) return('');

    //  v is n-word data vector; converted to array of longs from base64 string
    var v = Tea.strToLongs(atob(ciphertext));
    //  k is 4-word key; simply convert first 16 chars of password as key
    var k = Tea.strToLongs(password.slice(0,16));
    var n = v.length;

    v = Tea.decode(v, k);

    var plaintext = Tea.longsToStr(v);

    // strip trailing null chars resulting from filling 4-char blocks:
    var lastCh = plaintext.length-1;  
    while (plaintext[lastCh]===0) lastCh--;
    plaintext = plaintext.substr(0,lastCh+1);

    return plaintext;
};


/**
 * XXTEA: encodes array of unsigned 32-bit integers using 128-bit key.
 *
 * @param   {number[]} v - Data vector.
 * @param   {number[]} k - Key.
 * @returns {number[]} Encoded vector.
 */
Tea.encode = function(v, k) {
    if (v.length < 2) v[1] = 0;  // algorithm doesn't work for n<2 so fudge by adding a null
    var n = v.length;

    var z = v[n-1], y = v[0], delta = 0x9E3779B9;
    var mx, e, q = Math.floor(6 + 52/n), sum = 0;

    while (q-- > 0) {  // 6 + 52/n operations gives between 6 & 32 mixes on each word
        sum += delta;
        e = sum>>>2 & 3;
        for (var p = 0; p < n; p++) {
            y = v[(p+1)%n];
            mx = (z>>>5 ^ y<<2) + (y>>>3 ^ z<<4) ^ (sum^y) + (k[p&3 ^ e] ^ z);
            z = v[p] += mx;
        }
    }

    return v;
};


/**
 * XXTEA: decodes array of unsigned 32-bit integers using 128-bit key.
 *
 * @param   {number[]} v - Data vector.
 * @param   {number[]} k - Key.
 * @returns {number[]} Decoded vector.
 */
Tea.decode = function(v, k) {
    var n = v.length;

    var z = v[n-1], y = v[0], delta = 0x9E3779B9;
    var mx, e, q = Math.floor(6 + 52/n), sum = q*delta;

    while (sum != 0) {
        e = sum>>>2 & 3;
        for (var p = n-1; p >= 0; p--) {
            z = v[p>0 ? p-1 : n-1];
            mx = (z>>>5 ^ y<<2) + (y>>>3 ^ z<<4) ^ (sum^y) + (k[p&3 ^ e] ^ z);
            y = v[p] -= mx;
        }
        sum -= delta;
    }

    return v;
};


/**
 * Converts string to array of longs (each containing 4 chars).
 * @private
 */
Tea.strToLongs = function(s) {
    // note chars must be within ISO-8859-1 (Unicode code-point <= U+00FF) to fit 4/long
    var l = new Array(0|Math.ceil(s.length/4));
    for (var i=0; i<l.length; i++) {
        // note little-endian encoding - endianness is irrelevant as long as it matches longsToStr()
        l[i] = s.charCodeAt(i*4)        + (s.charCodeAt(i*4+1)<<8) +
              (s.charCodeAt(i*4+2)<<16) + (s.charCodeAt(i*4+3)<<24);
    }
    return l; // note running off the end of the string generates nulls since bitwise operators
};            // treat NaN as 0


/**
 * Converts array of longs to string.
 * @private
 */
Tea.longsToStr = function(l) {
    var a = new Array(l.length);
    for (var i=0; i<l.length; i++) {
        a[i] = String.fromCharCode(l[i] & 0xFF, l[i]>>>8 & 0xFF, l[i]>>>16 & 0xFF, l[i]>>>24 & 0xFF);
    }
    return a.join('');  // use Array.join() for better performance than repeated string appends
};


var s;
console.log(s=Tea.encrypt("Hello World!", "Bob"));
console.log(s=Tea.decrypt(s, "Bob"));