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From: Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Seriation
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:48:13 +0100
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Stefan Claas wrote:

> Anyways, I came up now with the idea to use hex values, so that
> we may come up with some programs, for use in sci.crypt ... :-)
> 
> $ echo -n 'Hello sci.crypt! :-)' | xxd -ps | dkhf
> 48656C6C6F207363
> 692E637279707421
> 203A
> 2D29
> 
> $ echo -n 'Hello sci.crypt! :-)' | xxd -ps | dkhf | seriation
> 46 89 62 5E 66 C3 67 C2 67 F9 27 00 77 34 62 31
> 22 0D 32 A9

To bring messages in the right hex format for seriation, which
can be a bit tricky, I suggest to use padding (multiple of 16
bytes) on the original message(s), prior converting to hex and
seriation.

This guarantees that seriation always works properly.

And padding is in general good practice.

-- 
Regards
Stefan