[486] in Kerberos
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daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Sat Aug 27 23:56:06 1988
From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU
> I am working on a software implementation of DES, and would like either
> another implementation or a set of test examples (plaintext block,
> key, ciphertext block in ECB mode) to verify the correctness of
> my version. So far in the small amount of literature I have looked at,
> I have found only 2 worked examples.
>
> When I am reasonably satisfied of the correctness of the code I will post
> it to eunet.sources (maybe to net.unix.sources, too).
>
> The code (if it is in fact correct) is quite fast: 2ms per cipher block
> on a VAX 11/785. I am working on a port to Sun. Some of the bit twiddling
> is byte-order dependent (UGH!).
>
> Peter Lamb prl@ethz.uucp, cernvax!ethz!prl
> Integrated Systems Lab. Phone: +41 1 256 5241
> Federal Inst. of Technology (ETH)
> Zurich, Switzerland
> --
> Peter Lamb
> uucp: seismo!mcvax!ethz!prl eunet: prl@ethz.uucp Tel: +411 256 5241
> Institute for Integrated Systems
> ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich
