Re: ciphersaber-2 human memorable test vectors

2002-03-30 Thread Jeff Cours
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Adam Back wrote: Any takers on ciphersaber-2 test vectors which are also topical and amusing english phrases? Is there a faster way to search the test vector space than brute force? Only certain output values from the PRNG will transform alphanumeric characters into other

Re: ciphersaber-2 human memorable test vectors

2002-03-30 Thread Adam Back
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 08:27:02AM -0800, Jeff Cours wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Adam Back wrote: Any takers on ciphersaber-2 test vectors which are also topical and amusing english phrases? Is there a faster way to search the test vector space than brute force? Only certain output

Re: ciphersaber-2 human memorable test vectors

2002-03-29 Thread Bill Frantz
At 10:15 AM -0800 3/26/02, Adam Back wrote: In general purely human readable test vectors are not ideal as they are 7 bit, and there have been cases where implementation errors or related to the 7th bit (for example one blowfish implementation had problems with signd / unsigned chars), but it is

ciphersaber-2 human memorable test vectors

2002-03-28 Thread Adam Back
A while ago I wrote some code to search for human readable test vectors for Arnold Reinhold's ciphersaber-2 (http://ciphersaber.gurus.com). Ciphersaber-2 is designed to be simple enough to be implemented from memory, to avoid the risk of being caught with crypto software on your computer for use