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Provide a script to regenerate the Blowfish init tables.
Since I've recently published a program that can easily generate the required digits of pi, and since I was messing around in sshblowf.c already, it seemed like a good idea to provide a derivation of all that hex data. (cherry picked from commit 2968563)
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/*
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* The Blowfish init data: hex digits of the fractional part of pi.
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* (ie pi as a hex fraction is 3.243F6A8885A308D3...)
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*
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* If you have Simon Tatham's 'spigot' exact real calculator
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* available, or any other method of generating 8336 fractional hex
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* digits of pi on standard output, you can regenerate these tables
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* exactly as below using the following Perl script (adjusting the
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* first line or two if your pi-generator is not spigot).
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open my $spig, "spigot -n -B16 -d8336 pi |";
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read $spig, $ignore, 2; # throw away the leading "3."
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for my $name ("parray", "sbox0".."sbox3") {
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print "static const word32 ${name}[] = {\n";
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my $len = $name eq "parray" ? 18 : 256;
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for my $i (1..$len) {
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read $spig, $word, 8;
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printf "%s0x%s,", ($i%6==1 ? " " : " "), uc $word;
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print "\n" if ($i == $len || $i%6 == 0);
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}
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print "};\n\n";
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}
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close $spig;
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*/
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static const word32 parray[] = {
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0x243F6A88, 0x85A308D3, 0x13198A2E, 0x03707344, 0xA4093822, 0x299F31D0,

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