[325] in Kerberos
More re storage of keys in the database...
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Steve Miller)
Tue Feb 23 11:29:41 1988
From: miller%erlang.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM (Steve Miller)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, MILLER%erlang.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM
Re Jerry's comments, I would strongly recommend against mucking with the
byte order of the key schedule. I spent much more time fighting with byte
order to get the correct answers than I did on the basic algorithm or making
it go reasonably fast.
If someone is looking for a significant project, the DES library could be
rewritten, starting on a BigEndian machine (instead of a VAX) to make it
cleaner and more readable. Since the DES algorithm is written in BigEndian
order, it was a major hassle doing it on the VAX and then being able to
get it to also work on the BigEndian RT PC.
Steve
