On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > So, there's an interesting problem I ran into: > > Suppose you need to obfuscate symbols in a symbol file, and to be able > to look them up later to analyze crash dumps.
> > The simple answer seems to be encryption, which can operate without > adding any metadata, but there's a catch; the symbol file format > expects the values to be symbols - not arbitrary octets. > > So, we have a non-uniform input space - let's say printable characters. >From the documentation for the AES candidate Hasty Pudding: "Arbitrary sets, such as dates, or the printable subset of ascii, or the 20-bit primes, can be encrypted to themselves." http://richard.schroeppel.name:8015/hpc/ _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
