That's the document I was trying to find earlier -- knew I had the link somewhere.
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:28:45 -0500, WebWiz wrote:
> 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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