phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Coding of the in[inlen] array for PHS( )

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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:24:03 +0000
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@...auckland.ac.nz>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Coding of the in[inlen] array for PHS( )

"Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@....org> writes:

>It is probably necessary to specify that the values must be between 0x00 and
>0xFF as well

And explicitly include test vectors with unusual values, 0x00, 0x80, 0x81,
0xFF, to make sure an implementation isn't character-set sensitive.  The
original reference Blowfish implementation got its key setup wrong for
characters with the high bit set.

Peter.