Human memorable test vectors are a great idea and very much in the
spirit of Ciphersaber, which is to enable oral transmission of strong
cryptography. Test vectors are vital, particularly for a string
cipher, because even an erroneous implementation will decrypt the
ciphertext it produces.
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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 ou
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 othe
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:49:30PM -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
> 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 blowfi
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
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
