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Re:The Chaocipher revealed by carver on Sunday July 04, 2010 @01:19PM (#1485969)
Pretty cool! I was curious about this, so I built a 50-line Python version to confirm my understanding. Feel free to check it out and use it (LGPL): http://bitbucket.org/carver/chaocipher/src/tip/chaocipher.py

It could use things like a configurable key and interactive enciphering command line, and I would be happy to pull such changes.

Edit updated link with improved comments about the rotation part of the cipher

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Re:The Chaocipher revealed by Groxx on Sunday July 04, 2010 @01:47PM (#1486014)
Your code serves as a much better explanation than the linked paper in the article. And that Perl code o_O
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Re:The Chaocipher revealed by carver on Sunday July 04, 2010 @02:29PM (#1486098)
Thanks! The paper was maybe a bit pedantic, but I appreciated his checkpoints and test cases. The perl was way overkill, though.
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Re:The Chaocipher revealed by eru on Sunday July 04, 2010 @06:16PM (#1486530)
Why did you use state?
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