#!/usr/bin/python # Copyright (c) 2015 Camil Staps import binascii # From http://stackoverflow.com/a/843846/1544337 # 1 for odd parity, 0 for even parity # Was used only in a previous version of nthByte # def parity(b): # c = 0 # while b != 0: # c += 1 # b &= b - 1 # return c % 2 # Find the nth possibility for a byte with odd parity oddBytes = [1,2,4,7,8,11,13,14,16,19,21,22,25,26,28,31,32,35,37,38,41,42,44,47,49,50,52,55,56,59,61,62,64,67,69,70,73,74,76,79,81,82,84,87,88,91,93,94,97,98,100,103,104,107,109,110,112,115,117,118,121,122,124,127,128,131,133,134,137,138,140,143,145,146,148,151,152,155,157,158,161,162,164,167,168,171,173,174,176,179,181,182,185,186,188,191,193,194,196,199,200,203,205,206,208,211,213,214,217,218,220,223,224,227,229,230,233,234,236,239,241,242,244,247,248,251,253,254] def nthByte(n): return oddBytes[n] # c = -1 # This is the old version. The new version uses a faster lookup table. # b = 0 # while c != n: # b += 1 # if parity(b) == 1: # c += 1 # return b # Find the nth key in which all bytes have odd parity def nthKey(n): key = '' for b in range(7,-1,-1): key += chr(nthByte((n >> b*7) & 0x7f)) return key # Example print binascii.b2a_hex(nthKey(765637))