Lynn W. Taylor wrote:
> There are a couple of other differences, but there are third-party
> documents that cover them. As far as I remember, they had to do with
> how keys were generated for the cypher.
More specifically, it has to do with how the key is "cooked" before use.
This primarily affects DES, because it's unable to use a long key like
Blowfish can use, so (IIRC) there's a process to fold the key on itself
somehow or another to come up with a usable key.
See http://tinyurl.com/w9de for an excellent explanation of how the
encryption is handled (the link is to a PDF of a document written by
Christina Louise Warne back in 2000).
Spend some time wandering through the list archives and you'll find a
bunch of nuggets like this (or at least discussions about
them...typically somebody who's been around for a while will have copies
of referenced documents). Lots of folks early on spent time
collaborating to build documents to help other people get OpenSRS
running on [your platform here].
Regards,
Eric Longman
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