[Cryptography] Removal of spaces in NIST Draft SP-800-63B

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Sat Apr 8 23:33:40 EDT 2017


> On 2017-04-08 (98), at 16:07:06, Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn4242 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 02:09:39PM +1000, Jason Richards wrote:
>> Jonathan Thornburg:
>>> dd if=/dev/arandom bs=50 count=1|alphanumeric.encode
>> 
>> What is this ”alphanumeric.encode" you speak of?

[….]

>> Is there something specific you use to convert to human-readable output?
> 
> alphanumeric.encode is a quick-n-dirty perl program I wrote to convert
> random binary data into random characters from [a-zA-Z0-9] or [a-z0-9]:


Ah, such beauty.  When used with an ADFGVX Polybius square for Lower-case
Morse code?  Sublime.
__outer :)



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