NODE e5828508Crypto code published in magazines
Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>Sat, 15 Feb 1997 22:58:04 -0800 (PST)
I'm trying to find instances of crypto code published in computer magazines in
the last few years. I know of Blowfish in DDJ, are there cases of more
mainstream computer mags like Byte publishing crypto code (I know Byte did DES
in 1977, I'm hoping for something a bit more recent)?. Please mail or cc
replies directly to me, nntp.hks.net seems to have died :-(.
Peter.
NODE ad3ed6cbRe: Crypto code published in magazines
"Peter D. Junger" <junger@upaya.multiverse.com>Sun, 16 Feb 1997 04:54:45 -0800 (PST)
Peter Gutmann writes:
: I'm trying to find instances of crypto code published in computer magazines i
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: the last few years. I know of Blowfish in DDJ, are there cases of more
: mainstream computer mags like Byte publishing crypto code (I know Byte did DE
: S
: in 1977, I'm hoping for something a bit more recent)?. Please mail or cc
: replies directly to me, nntp.hks.net seems to have died :-(.
:
: Peter.
If there are any responses I would be very interested in seeing them
too.
Thanks,
Peter
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NODE 2ec27c25Re: Crypto code published in magazines
Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>Sun, 16 Feb 1997 09:43:28 -0800 (PST)
Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:
> I'm trying to find instances of crypto code published in computer
> magazines i n the last few years. I know of Blowfish in DDJ, are
> there cases of more mainstream computer mags like Byte publishing
> crypto code (I know Byte did DES in 1977, I'm hoping for something a
> bit more recent)?.
Well this code (an implementation of RSA) appeared in UK Computer
Shopper (largest readership computer mag in UK) by Charlie Stross:
print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`
(actually it was some earlier version of the code)
Other media appearances include:
- A picture of the shirt in Nova magazine (a French publication)
- Shirt on Nulle Part Ailleurs (French cabal TV talk show)
- Shirt Japanese edition of Wired
- Shirt in US version of Wired
- Richard White's tattoo of the program in UK Wired
- Shirt in BBC Open Univ program (educational program on encryption)
- Picture of label with program on New York Times
All of those apart from the last would probably be readable from the
source code, or from the bar code. [Do KISS do image enhancement
also? :-)]
(some pics on:
http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/shirt/media.html
http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
)
Adam
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print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`