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Feistel-type cipher in C++

Hi,
Im trying to implement a feistel-type cipher in C++. I was wondering if there already exists such a cipher written in C++? or any other common/extensible programming language such as java,c or perl/python? I've tried to search abit and it seems that most feistel ciphers doesnt come with its source code or that its compiled executeable is only available.
Anyone know where i might find this in C++?
Thanks

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Jaime Olivares

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Infinity08

And here's a nice general overview with a few interesting links if you're interested in that :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feistel_network

One of the best known Feistel ciphers is Blowfish ... on the official site, you can find reference source code :

http://www.schneier.com/blowfish-download.html

Traltixx

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Thanks for that.
I was also wondering if there is a function in C++ to convert a single character to a 16 digit binary representation of its ASCII value and convert it back.

Infinity08

A normal (8-bit) character is an integer value itself, so you can easily retrieve its value :

char c = 'A'; /* = 65 = 0x41 */
fprintf(stdout, "int val of char \'%c\' : %d = 0x%02x\n", c, (int) c, (int) c); /* C style :) */

Do I understand you correctly that you want to retrieve a string containing the binary representation of the character ?

char c = 'A'; /* = 65 = 0x41 */

and get :

char *s = "01000001";

?

If so, you can use itoa() for this :

http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cstdlib/itoa.html

If you just want the integer value, cast the character to an int, and that's it.

Traltixx

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sorry, you are right..what I meant was I want to get the binary representation of a character or hex and covert it back to the character again.
Thanks

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Traltixx

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yes.thats exactly what Im looking for.
Thanks.
Also a quick question if I do a ^ (xor) operator on two single chars, would it give me the bit-by-bit XOR result? I was assuming it did, but would like the feedback.

Infinity08

Yes,

0xab ^ 0x32 = 0x22

or in binary :

10101011
XOR 00110010
------------
00100010

Infinity08

Let me just repeat this to make sure : a char is an integer type, so it can be treated as any other integer type (including the (bitwise) operations you can do on them).