source-engine/external/crypto++-5.6.3/TestVectors

Test Data Format



A test data file is an ASCII text file composed of sections separated by 

blank lines. Each section is stand-alone and independent of other 

sections that may be in the same file, and contains one or more tests.



A section is composed of a sequence of fields. Each field is one or more 

lines composed of a field name, followed by a colon (":"), followed by a 

field body. All but the last line of a field must end with a backslash 

("\"). If any line contains a hash mark ("#"), the hash mark and 

everything after it on the same line is not considered part of the field 

body.



Each section must contain fields named AlgorithmType, Name, Source, and 

Test. The presence and semantics of other fields depend on the algorithm 

being tested and the tests to be run. 



Each section may contain more than one test and therefore more than one 

field named Test. In that case the order of the fields is significant. A 

test should always use the last field with any given name that occurs 

before the Test field.



Data Types



int - small integer (less than 2^32) in decimal representation

string - human readable string

encoded string - can be one of the following

	- quoted string: "message" means "message" without the quotes 

	  or terminating '\0'

	- hex encoded string: 0x74657374 or 74657374 means "test"

	- repeated string: r100 "message" to repeat "message" 100 times, or 

	  r256 0x0011 to repeat 0x0011 256 times



Field Types



AlgorithmType - string, for example "Signature", "AsymmetricCipher", 

"SymmetricCipher", "MAC", "MessageDigest", or "KeyFactory"

Name - string, an algorithm name from SCAN

Test - string, identifies the test to run

Source - string, text explaining where the test data came from

Comment - string, other comments about the test data

KeyFormat - string, specifies the key format. "Component" here means 

each component of the key or key pair is specified separately as a name, 

value pair, with the names depending on the algorithm being tested. 

Otherwise the value names "Key", or "PublicKey" and "PrivateKey" are 

used.

Key - encoded string

PublicKey - encoded string

PrivateKey - encoded string

Message - encoded string, message to be signed or verified

Signature - encoded string, signature to be verified or compared 

with

Plaintext - encoded string

Ciphertext - encoded string

Header - encoded string

Footer - encoded string

DerivedKey - encoded string

DerivedLength - encoded string

Digest - encoded string

TruncatedSize - int, size of truncated digest in bytes

Seek - int, seek location for random access ciphers

(more to come here)



Possible Tests



KeyPairValidAndConsistent - public and private keys are both valid and 

consistent with each other

PublicKeyInvalid - public key validation should not pass

PrivateKeyInvalid - private key validation should not pass

Verify - signature/digest/MAC verification should pass

VerifyTruncated - truncated digest/MAC verification should pass

NotVerify - signature/digest/MAC verification should not pass

DeterministicSign - sign message using given seed, and the resulting 

signature should be equal to the given signature

DecryptMatch - ciphertext decrypts to plaintext

(more to come here)