I'm currently involved in trying to produce and test a fairly simple
symmetric-key cipher for a cryptography-related assignment. As a part of
that cipher, I need to generate quite a few subkeys from my initial key.
In keeping with the intent of the cipher (to do as much as possible via
random processes with the key as the seed), I've been trying to find a
good way to produce a variable-length pseudo-random sequence from a
variable-length key (the cipher I'm creating offers a choice as to block
size, key length, and number of rounds, mostly in order to increase ease
of analysis).
As such, I've been involved in trying to separate out the randpool
segment from the rest of the archive, and I keep running into trouble
with assorted compilation errors. Unfortunately I don't have easy access
to a Windows machine in order to go through the user's guide, and I can't
seem to figure out what can be safely removed and what I have to keep in
order to incorporate the randpool functionality into my cipher for subkey
generation. I'm wondering if anyone on this list might be able to help me
with that.
Thank you for any information,
-Brian Quirt
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