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pcp/libpcp/randomart.c
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/*
* Draw an ASCII-Art representing the fingerprint so human brain can
* profit from its built-in pattern recognition ability.
* This technique is called "random art" and can be found in some
* scientific publications like this original paper:
*
* "Hash Visualization: a New Technique to improve Real-World Security",
* Perrig A. and Song D., 1999, International Workshop on Cryptographic
* Techniques and E-Commerce (CrypTEC '99)
* sparrow.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/projects/validation/validation.pdf
*
* The subject came up in a talk by Dan Kaminsky, too.
*
* If you see the picture is different, the key is different.
* If the picture looks the same, you still know nothing.
*
* The algorithm used here is a worm crawling over a discrete plane,
* leaving a trace (augmenting the field) everywhere it goes.
* Movement is taken from dgst_raw 2bit-wise. Bumping into walls
* makes the respective movement vector be ignored for this turn.
* Graphs are not unambiguous, because circles in graphs can be
* walked in either direction.
*/
#include "randomart.h"
#define FLDSIZE_Y 8
#define FLDSIZE_X FLDSIZE_Y * 2
char *key_fingerprint_randomart(unsigned char *dgst_raw, unsigned int dgst_raw_len)
{
/*
* Chars to be used after each other every time the worm
* intersects with itself. Matter of taste.
*/
char *augmentation_string = " .o+=*BOX@%&#/^";
char *retval, *p;
char field[FLDSIZE_X][FLDSIZE_Y];
unsigned int i, b;
int x, y;
retval = ucmalloc((FLDSIZE_X + 3) * (FLDSIZE_Y + 2));
/* initialize field */
memset(field, ' ', FLDSIZE_X * FLDSIZE_Y * sizeof(char));
x = FLDSIZE_X / 2;
y = FLDSIZE_Y / 2;
field[x][y] = '.';
/* process raw key */
for (i = 0; i < dgst_raw_len; i++) {
int input;
/* each byte conveys four 2-bit move commands */
input = dgst_raw[i];
for (b = 0; b < 4; b++) {
/* evaluate 2 bit, rest is shifted later */
x += (input & 0x1) ? 1 : -1;
y += (input & 0x2) ? 1 : -1;
/* assure we are still in bounds */
x = MAX(x, 0);
y = MAX(y, 0);
x = MIN(x, FLDSIZE_X - 1);
y = MIN(y, FLDSIZE_Y - 1);
/* augment the field */
p = strchr(augmentation_string, field[x][y]);
if (*++p != '\0')
field[x][y] = *p;
input = input >> 2;
}
}
/* fill in retval */
p = retval;
/* output upper border */
*p++ = '+';
for (i = 0; i < FLDSIZE_X; i++)
*p++ = '-';
*p++ = '+';
*p++ = '\n';
/* output content */
for (y = 0; y < FLDSIZE_Y; y++) {
*p++ = '|';
for (x = 0; x < FLDSIZE_X; x++)
*p++ = field[x][y];
*p++ = '|';
*p++ = '\n';
}
/* output lower border */
*p++ = '+';
for (i = 0; i < FLDSIZE_X; i++)
*p++ = '-';
*p++ = '+';
return retval;
}