One-time pad
One-time pad is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.
Implement a One-time pad
- Sub-Tasks
- generate the data for a One-time pad (user needs to specify a filename and length)
- The important part is to get "true random" numbers, e.g. from /dev/random
- encryption / decryption ( basically the same operation, much like Rot-13 )
- For this step, much of Vigenère cipher could be reused,
with the key to be read from the file containing the One-time pad.
- optional: management of One-time pads: list, mark as used, delete, etc.
- Somehow, the users needs to keep track which pad to use for which partner.
For example, here is the data from Wikipedia:
ZDXWWW EJKAWO FECIFE WSNZIP PXPKIY URMZHI JZTLBC YLGDYJ HTSVTV RRYYEG EXNCGA GGQVRF FHZCIB EWLGGR BZXQDQ DGGIAK YHJYEQ TDLCQT HZBSIZ IRZDYS RBYJFZ AIRCWI UCVXTW YKPQMK CKHVEX VXYVCS WOGAAZ OUVVON GCNEVR LMBLYB SBDCDC PCGVJX QXAUIP PXZQIJ JIUWYH COVWMJ UZOJHL DWHPER UBSRUJ HGAAPR CRWVHI FRNTQW AJVWRT ACAKRD OZKIIB VIQGBK IJCWHF GTTSSE EXFIPJ KICASQ IOUQTP ZSGXGH YTYCTI BAZSTN JKMFXI RERYWE
Tcl
<lang Tcl>puts "# True random chars for one-time pad"
proc randInt { min max } {
set randDev [open /dev/urandom rb] set random [read $randDev 8] binary scan $random H16 random set random [expr {([scan $random %x] % (($max-$min) + 1) + $min)}] close $randDev return $random
}
set alfa "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" set len 48 set rs "" for {set i 0} {$i < $len} {incr i} {
if { [expr {$i % 6} ] == 0} { append rs " " } set r [randInt 1 26] set char [string index $alfa $r] append rs $char
} puts ":$rs."
- Output:
# True random chars for one-time pad : IDEVVW KCTMY KLKLID DSGKIV WHMOX LIEYWF MCIECW OUQVIV.