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Re: ciphersaber-2 human memorable test vectors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Cours)
Sat Mar 30 14:16:23 2002

Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:27:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Cours <cpunk-j@moriarti.org>
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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 alphanumerics, so that's one way to
constrain the search, but are there other, more effective ones?

- Jeff



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