From: Ian Farquhar <ifarqhar@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 17:33:45 PDT
To: B858JT@UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (John Thomas)
Subject: Re: Validating IDEA
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>Does anyone know if there is a validation suite for the IDEA
>cipher?  I want to be able to verify an implementation on
>the TMS320 digital-signal processor.

>The NIST has such a test suite for the DES, but I haven't heard
>anything about IDEA.

There is some sample data included in the appendix to the IDEA
description (chapter 3 or someone's thesis) which is floating around
the network.  This sample data should allow at least a partial
validation of your cipher implementation, and arbitrary amounts of
it can furthermore be generated by using the sample C implementation
contained in the same appendix.

This document is widely available, but until the end of the week I have
stored it in:

	ftp.mq.edu.au:/home/ifarqhar/idea-eurocrypt90.zip

I do not know how much longer it will remain after Friday, as I will be
leaving my position here on that day and moving accounts.

							Ian.