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-/*
- * Copyright (c) 1990 Dennis Ferguson. All rights reserved.
- *
- * Commercial use is permitted only if products which are derived from
- * or include this software are made available for purchase and/or use
- * in Canada. Otherwise, redistribution and use in source and binary
- * forms are permitted.
- */
-
-Sorry about the poor quality of installation instructions. Included
-here are replacements for the DES portions of Eric Young's kerberos
-DES library replacement. To use this you will need his distribution.
-Untar the latter and:
-
-(1) Copy all .c and .h files into the distribution directory. This will
- overwrite some files and add others.
-
-(2) Apply the patch included here to set_key.c in the distribution directory.
-
-(3) Edit the Imakefile (or the Makefile) to include the following files
- on the SRCS= line:
-
- des_tables.c ecb_buffer.c make_sched.c
-
- Add the following files to the OBJS= line:
-
- des_tables.o ecb_buffer.o make_sched.o
-
- Add the following file to the CODE= line:
-
- des_tables.h
-
-Recompile and you're done.
-
-The salient differences between this DES and Eric Young's are as follows:
-
-(1) There are no dependencies on byte ordering, the ability to do
- unaligned loads and stores, or any other machine dependencies
- that I know of. There are no #ifdef's. The code could probably
- be made faster by adding such things, but not enough to be worth
- it.
-
-(2) Combined S and P tables are used for the inner loop of the cipher
- routine and the E expansion is computed on the fly, like Eric
- Young's code, but the computation is reordered from the standard
- to save instructions.
-
-(3) The initial and final permutations are table driven, and take
- about the same amount of work as a single round of the inner
- loop (i.e. only about 12% of the work done for an ecb encryption
- is spent in the IP and FP code).
-
-(4) Since NTP (for which this DES was originally implemented) uses
- lots of keys to encrypt small things, the key permutation code
- has been well worked over and is quite speedy (the amount of
- work required to permute a key is on the order of that required
- to do a single ECB encryption, more or less).
-
-(5) Since the code required to do an ECB encryption using the tables
- is actually fairly compact, even with lots of inlining, it was
- implemented as a macro and is expanded in situ where needed.
-
-On the one machine I ran a comparison on this code ran 80% faster than
-Eric's, compiled into a slightly smaller space, and did pass destest.
-I suspect this stuff is also faster, and not a lot larger, than the
-library MIT doesn't export with kerberos. You mileage may vary.
-
-The silly copyright was a (probably ineffective) afterthought. If it
-really inconveniences you give me a call.