Inspired by Chris's HMAC cipher

[Stefan Claas]

I came up with the following idea.

Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.

https://pollux.nekoweb.org

Alice does:

$ xchacha20 key iv < msg.txt | b2h | hex2img -b 0 -v | xml2html > index.html && neko

Process completed in 4.7553ms

Files uploaded

While Bob does:

$ curl https://pollux.nekoweb.org | xml2html -d | hex2img -v -d | b2h -d | xchacha20 key iv
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 825 0 825 0 0 4881 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4881
Hello sci.crypt! :-)

Process completed in 191.3448ms

Thus allowing Alice and Bob to exchange messages without email usage and
without visiting a website with a browser.

Hope you like the idea!

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.
https://pollux.nekoweb.org
$ xchacha20 key iv < msg.txt | b2h | hex2img -b 0 -v | xml2html > index.html && neko
Process completed in 4.7553ms
Files uploaded
$ curl https://pollux.nekoweb.org | xml2html -d | hex2img -v -d | b2h -d | xchacha20 key iv
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 825 0 825 0 0 4881 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4881
Hello sci.crypt! :-)
Process completed in 191.3448ms
Thus allowing Alice and Bob to exchange messages without email usage and
without visiting a website with a browser.
Hope you like the idea!

Have made the process a bit more flexible, so that the neko bash script
is replaced with a nekoweb Go program, which acts as cURL, for Windows
users who don't have cURL. This makes also the upload more flexible, so
tha folders can be created where the files are stored.

Example: https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/1.txt

$ nekoweb -d https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/1.html | xml2html -d | hex2img -v -d | b2h -d | xchacha20 key iv
I wish the sci.crypt community
a nice weekend! Regards Stefan


Process completed in 231.1079ms

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.
https://pollux.nekoweb.org
$ xchacha20 key iv < msg.txt | b2h | hex2img -b 0 -v | xml2html > index.html && neko
Process completed in 4.7553ms
Files uploaded
$ curl https://pollux.nekoweb.org | xml2html -d | hex2img -v -d | b2h -d | xchacha20 key iv
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 825 0 825 0 0 4881 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4881
Hello sci.crypt! :-)
Process completed in 191.3448ms
Thus allowing Alice and Bob to exchange messages without email usage and
without visiting a website with a browser.
Hope you like the idea!

Have made the process a bit more flexible, so that the neko bash script
is replaced with a nekoweb Go program, which acts as cURL, for Windows
users who don't have cURL. This makes also the upload more flexible, so
tha folders can be created where the files are stored.
Example: https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/1.txt

https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/1.html

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.
https://pollux.nekoweb.org
$ xchacha20 key iv < msg.txt | b2h | hex2img -b 0 -v | xml2html > index.html && neko
Process completed in 4.7553ms
Files uploaded
$ curl https://pollux.nekoweb.org | xml2html -d | hex2img -v -d | b2h -d | xchacha20 key iv
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 825 0 825 0 0 4881 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4881
Hello sci.crypt! :-)
Process completed in 191.3448ms
Thus allowing Alice and Bob to exchange messages without email usage and
without visiting a website with a browser.

I figured out that my xml2html program is not required, because the xml/svg
output renders just fine on web pages, with Edge Browser. Hope this is true
as well for other browers.

I also put the commands in aliases so that I only use 'enc' or 'dec' along
with the nekoweb command.

Example.

key: 5c42a3c290c91c66654b9af5a924057677b691257a24b7e414d028300bd4f6f0
iv: 7dfa38650527d096fbbbeb8b05e5097c48089a21c391a45b

https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/3.html

$ enc | nekoweb msg/3.html

$ nekoweb -d https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/3.html | dec
I wish the sci.crypt community a nice weekend
and hope that you come up as well with such
an encoder/decoder! Best regards Stefan. :-)

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Stefan Claas
Example.
key: 5c42a3c290c91c66654b9af5a924057677b691257a24b7e414d028300bd4f6f0
iv: 7dfa38650527d096fbbbeb8b05e5097c48089a21c391a45b
https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/3.html
$ enc | nekoweb msg/3.html
$ nekoweb -d https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/3.html | dec
I wish the sci.crypt community a nice weekend
and hope that you come up as well with such
an encoder/decoder! Best regards Stefan. :-)

Reference tools:

https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/nekoweb
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/hex2img
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/b2h
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/xchacha20

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Stefan Claas
Example.
key: 5c42a3c290c91c66654b9af5a924057677b691257a24b7e414d028300bd4f6f0
iv: 7dfa38650527d096fbbbeb8b05e5097c48089a21c391a45b
https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/3.html
$ enc | nekoweb msg/3.html
$ nekoweb -d https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/3.html | dec
I wish the sci.crypt community a nice weekend
and hope that you come up as well with such
an encoder/decoder! Best regards Stefan. :-)

https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/nekoweb
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/hex2img
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/b2h
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/xchacha20

Added -T parameter for Tor usage.

Example:

$ echo -n 'Hello world.' | minicrypt stefan.pem | nekoweb -T msg/12.txt
Response: Files uploaded

$ nekoweb -T -d https://pollux.nekoweb.org/msg/12.txt \
| minicrypt -d stefanp.pem
Hello world.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.[...]

To decrypt use the default key, except click on the SHA512 radio button,
then click decrypt:

http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f650c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237db3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.[...]

To decrypt use the default key, except click on the SHA512 radio button,
http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f650c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237db3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

Hi Chris, please reply here in plaintext. I do not have the passwort anymore.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.[...]

To decrypt use the default key, except click on the SHA512 radio button,
http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f650c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237db3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

Hi Chris, please reply here in plaintext. I do not have the passwort anymore.

If you click on the link; click on the SHA512 radio button and then
click the decrypt button you should see the following plaintext:
________________________
Well, shit... I have been really busy lately.

Sorry for neglecting this group.
________________________

Here is a screenshot with the plaintext highlighted:

Loading Image...

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.[...]

To decrypt use the default key, except click on the SHA512 radio button,
http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f650c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237db3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

Hi Chris, please reply here in plaintext. I do not have the passwort anymore.

If you click on the link; click on the SHA512 radio button and then
________________________
Well, shit... I have been really busy lately.
Sorry for neglecting this group.
________________________
https://i.ibb.co/tzSbQYJ/image.png

Ah, ok.

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.[...]

To decrypt use the default key, except click on the SHA512 radio button,
http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f650c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237db3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

Hi Chris, please reply here in plaintext. I do not have the passwort anymore.

Or for further communications, I would prefer that you use my minicrypt too,
because then we do not need to visit the WWW, for encrypted communications.

My pub key (save it as stefan.pem):

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
tRxoeAmoI+0ygSbUYHBRpbYBDkC9+Q3rSTchzSXFHrU=
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.[...]

To decrypt use the default key, except click on the SHA512 radio button,
http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f650c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237db3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

Hi Chris, please reply here in plaintext. I do not have the passwort anymore.

Or for further communications, I would prefer that you use my minicrypt too,
because then we do not need to visit the WWW, for encrypted communications.
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
tRxoeAmoI+0ygSbUYHBRpbYBDkC9+Q3rSTchzSXFHrU=
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

Your ciphertext is also longer than minicrypt ciphertext.

Your message with your HMAC cipher:

a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f65
0c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce
8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237d
b3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef
1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

Your message with my minicrypt cipher:

RzJ1JQ9XcXuvqozXkVDzTMOLVwOcZTboSrj+16/gZmU+l/0wrLy1Lj6tu+o24QHJ
Oo7OZ2XXhbf6PqdQ4mpGxDOB7QuasdrnKwPLUNrnUPgXgimjl/3f1HRcJz6pBQf2
Ywgh1TCpiZnydd+Clt8uj4dbXHYpSSBkG0NIchAauixcHzXAPlME233RW8VrddMi
tAYbJptlqHLB

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.[...]

To decrypt use the default key, except click on the SHA512 radio button,
http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f650c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237db3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

Hi Chris, please reply here in plaintext. I do not have the passwort anymore.

Or for further communications, I would prefer that you use my minicrypt too,
because then we do not need to visit the WWW, for encrypted communications.
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
tRxoeAmoI+0ygSbUYHBRpbYBDkC9+Q3rSTchzSXFHrU=
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

Your ciphertext is also longer than minicrypt ciphertext.
a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f65
0c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce
8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237d
b3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef
1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e
RzJ1JQ9XcXuvqozXkVDzTMOLVwOcZTboSrj+16/gZmU+l/0wrLy1Lj6tu+o24QHJ
Oo7OZ2XXhbf6PqdQ4mpGxDOB7QuasdrnKwPLUNrnUPgXgimjl/3f1HRcJz6pBQf2
Ywgh1TCpiZnydd+Clt8uj4dbXHYpSSBkG0NIchAauixcHzXAPlME233RW8VrddMi
tAYbJptlqHLB

Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ

;^)

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I came up with the following idea.
Register a webpage at nekoweb.org, use an API key
and send encrypted messages to the web page, which
later Bob and Alice can decrypt.[...]

To decrypt use the default key, except click on the SHA512 radio button,
http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f650c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237db3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e

Hi Chris, please reply here in plaintext. I do not have the passwort anymore.

Or for further communications, I would prefer that you use my minicrypt too,
because then we do not need to visit the WWW, for encrypted communications.
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
tRxoeAmoI+0ygSbUYHBRpbYBDkC9+Q3rSTchzSXFHrU=
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

Your ciphertext is also longer than minicrypt ciphertext.
a4f7cb5f3c7a0957d9517ad740b06a5d13a02e0affcb2882f700e388eec93f65
0c92e3b451915f04d2c0dd45f13e1ad5bfad03552937e2ff2602ec88dc3ccdce
8b3076ec0addad4b41123297542709c292bb836850057363dbd2e7c7eb6f237d
b3e3d3d891600c880b92bbbe0b293a34bbc4994c81dba3deef421247965b01ef
1cfca2ac91fc73b1511997cb09907e
RzJ1JQ9XcXuvqozXkVDzTMOLVwOcZTboSrj+16/gZmU+l/0wrLy1Lj6tu+o24QHJ
Oo7OZ2XXhbf6PqdQ4mpGxDOB7QuasdrnKwPLUNrnUPgXgimjl/3f1HRcJz6pBQf2
Ywgh1TCpiZnydd+Clt8uj4dbXHYpSSBkG0NIchAauixcHzXAPlME233RW8VrddMi
tAYbJptlqHLB

Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

Have you tried my minincrypt yet? It is probably the easiest to
use public key encryption software. ;-)

[Chris M. Thomasson]

[...]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

You never got it compile with C99?

Post by Stefan Claas
Have you tried my minincrypt yet? It is probably the easiest to
use public key encryption software. ;-)

I have not. Sorry! Been working lately.

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
[...]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

You never got it compile with C99?

I tried with gcc and g++, but it is ok.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
Have you tried my minincrypt yet? It is probably the easiest to
use public key encryption software. ;-)

I have not. Sorry! Been working lately.

You should really try and use it. It is probably the easiest to
use encryption program out there and it uses modern ciphers and
no need for WWW based encrypted message exchange.

I am also thinking of creating a key pair for sci.crypt, so that
we no longer have to use SCOS, because SCOS was floating around
on Bitmessage, as C, Pascal and Go code.

[Rich]

I am also thinking of creating a key pair for sci.crypt, so that we
no longer have to use SCOS, because SCOS was floating around on
Bitmessage, as C, Pascal and Go code.

Do note that SCOS was not intended to be "secure" (for most definitions
of that word). Richard H. posted it as an exercise in breaking a
cipher given just examples of the cipher's output. It fits in as a
somewhat more difficult ROT13 than as a true "protection" for anything
posted with it.

It is interesting that source for it is on bitmessage.

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Rich

I am also thinking of creating a key pair for sci.crypt, so that we
no longer have to use SCOS, because SCOS was floating around on
Bitmessage, as C, Pascal and Go code.

Do note that SCOS was not intended to be "secure" (for most definitions
of that word). Richard H. posted it as an exercise in breaking a
cipher given just examples of the cipher's output. It fits in as a
somewhat more difficult ROT13 than as a true "protection" for anything
posted with it.

Ok, understand.

Post by Rich
It is interesting that source for it is on bitmessage.

It has been a while since it was posted. New users may not be able
to fetch it, because Bitmessage has a TTL parameter.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
[...]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

You never got it compile with C99?

I tried with gcc and g++, but it is ok.

Well, what errors did you get? Many others were able to compile and run
it wrt encrypt and decrypt cycles on various plaintexts.

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
Have you tried my minincrypt yet? It is probably the easiest to
use public key encryption software. ;-)

I have not. Sorry! Been working lately.

You should really try and use it.

Hummm... Agreed. Also, I have you to query if I have any issues.

Thanks Stefan. :^)

Post by Stefan Claas
It is probably the easiest to
use encryption program out there and it uses modern ciphers and
no need for WWW based encrypted message exchange.

The only reasons I created an online version of it was for "convenience"
and just to see if I could do it to begin with. Its client side only. I
thought, sending the ciphertext in a url was be an easy way. Hex
encoding was simple enough. Keep in mind that my cipher is purely
symmetric at this stage.

Post by Stefan Claas
I am also thinking of creating a key pair for sci.crypt, so that
we no longer have to use SCOS, because SCOS was floating around
on Bitmessage, as C, Pascal and Go code.

:^) Fwiw, I never compiled any Go code in my life. C and Pascal, yup,
but not Go. Fwiw, I am friends with somebody who is/was on the Go team.
Not sure if he still works for Google. I have not talked to him in some
months.

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
[...]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

You never got it compile with C99?

I tried with gcc and g++, but it is ok.

Well, what errors did you get? Many others were able to compile and run
it wrt encrypt and decrypt cycles on various plaintexts.

Oh, I don't remember. It's been a while.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
Have you tried my minincrypt yet? It is probably the easiest to
use public key encryption software. ;-)

I have not. Sorry! Been working lately.

You should really try and use it.

Hummm... Agreed. Also, I have you to query if I have any issues.

You just need to install the latest version of Go and then run
in the directory of minicrypt: go build -ldflags "-s -w", for
an optimezed version, instead of go build.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Thanks Stefan. :^)

You're welcome!

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
It is probably the easiest to
use encryption program out there and it uses modern ciphers and
no need for WWW based encrypted message exchange.

The only reasons I created an online version of it was for "convenience"
and just to see if I could do it to begin with. Its client side only. I
thought, sending the ciphertext in a url was be an easy way. Hex
encoding was simple enough. Keep in mind that my cipher is purely
symmetric at this stage.

Understand! I was also not complaining about your cipher. It is just
the fact that I do not like the idea of visiting the WWW, when encrypting
or decrypting.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I am also thinking of creating a key pair for sci.crypt, so that
we no longer have to use SCOS, because SCOS was floating around
on Bitmessage, as C, Pascal and Go code.

:^) Fwiw, I never compiled any Go code in my life. C and Pascal, yup,
but not Go. Fwiw, I am friends with somebody who is/was on the Go team.
Not sure if he still works for Google. I have not talked to him in some
months.

Oh, interesting. :-) Go is IMHO pretty cool, because it has so many libraries,
you can find on GitHub and most new and cool crypto stuff etc. is either
written in Go or Rust.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
[...]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

You never got it compile with C99?

I tried with gcc and g++, but it is ok.

Well, what errors did you get? Many others were able to compile and run
it wrt encrypt and decrypt cycles on various plaintexts.

Oh, I don't remember. It's been a while.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
Have you tried my minincrypt yet? It is probably the easiest to
use public key encryption software. ;-)

I have not. Sorry! Been working lately.

You should really try and use it.

Hummm... Agreed. Also, I have you to query if I have any issues.

You just need to install the latest version of Go and then run
in the directory of minicrypt: go build -ldflags "-s -w", for
an optimezed version, instead of go build.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Thanks Stefan. :^)

You're welcome!

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
It is probably the easiest to
use encryption program out there and it uses modern ciphers and
no need for WWW based encrypted message exchange.

The only reasons I created an online version of it was for "convenience"
and just to see if I could do it to begin with. Its client side only. I
thought, sending the ciphertext in a url was be an easy way. Hex
encoding was simple enough. Keep in mind that my cipher is purely
symmetric at this stage.

Understand! I was also not complaining about your cipher. It is just
the fact that I do not like the idea of visiting the WWW, when encrypting
or decrypting.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas
I am also thinking of creating a key pair for sci.crypt, so that
we no longer have to use SCOS, because SCOS was floating around
on Bitmessage, as C, Pascal and Go code.

:^) Fwiw, I never compiled any Go code in my life. C and Pascal, yup,
but not Go. Fwiw, I am friends with somebody who is/was on the Go team.
Not sure if he still works for Google. I have not talked to him in some
months.

Oh, interesting. :-) Go is IMHO pretty cool, because it has so many libraries,
you can find on GitHub and most new and cool crypto stuff etc. is either
written in Go or Rust.

He is a very smart person and I feel great to be able to converse with
him about many things.

[Stefan Claas]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
:^) Fwiw, I never compiled any Go code in my life. C and Pascal, yup,
but not Go. Fwiw, I am friends with somebody who is/was on the Go team.
Not sure if he still works for Google. I have not talked to him in some
months.

Oh, interesting. :-) Go is IMHO pretty cool, because it has so many libraries,
you can find on GitHub and most new and cool crypto stuff etc. is either
written in Go or Rust.

He is a very smart person and I feel great to be able to converse with
him about many things.

And he could not convince you to use Go too? :-)

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
:^) Fwiw, I never compiled any Go code in my life. C and Pascal, yup,
but not Go. Fwiw, I am friends with somebody who is/was on the Go team.
Not sure if he still works for Google. I have not talked to him in some
months.

Oh, interesting. :-) Go is IMHO pretty cool, because it has so many libraries,
you can find on GitHub and most new and cool crypto stuff etc. is either
written in Go or Rust.

He is a very smart person and I feel great to be able to converse with
him about many things.

And he could not convince you to use Go too? :-)

Well, shit... I just never used it before and he never tried to convince
me. By the way, his name is Dmitry Vyukov. Smart guy.

[Rich]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
[...]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

You never got it compile with C99?

I tried with gcc and g++, but it is ok.

Well, what errors did you get? Many others were able to compile and run
it wrt encrypt and decrypt cycles on various plaintexts.

No makefile, so whether one gets C99 mode depends on what compiler
version is being used, and upon whether they thought to explicitly
indicate a version to compile against.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Rich

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
[...]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

You never got it compile with C99?

I tried with gcc and g++, but it is ok.

Well, what errors did you get? Many others were able to compile and run
it wrt encrypt and decrypt cycles on various plaintexts.

No makefile, so whether one gets C99 mode depends on what compiler
version is being used, and upon whether they thought to explicitly
indicate a version to compile against.

no makefile at all... ;^o

It uses the following HMAC lib:

https://github.com/ogay/hmac

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Rich

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
[...]

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Yeah, I am only representing the ciphertext in hex right now for the
online version. Now, I could modify it to encode the ciphetext in base
64 or something a little more "dense", so to speak... Fwiw, here is a
link to a C based test version, have you seen it yet?
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/XKl1-0a8DAAJ

Bart and I got it to work on many different compilers in that thread.

Post by Rich

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Stefan Claas

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
;^)

Yes, I remember that and I had compiler errors.

You never got it compile with C99?

I tried with gcc and g++, but it is ok.

Well, what errors did you get? Many others were able to compile and run
it wrt encrypt and decrypt cycles on various plaintexts.

No makefile, so whether one gets C99 mode depends on what compiler
version is being used, and upon whether they thought to explicitly
indicate a version to compile against.