[184] in Kerberos
re: Fix for des library
jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 9 21:39:09 1987
From Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Wed Mar 25 01:02:40 1987
To: spm%lyre.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM (Steve Miller), kerberos
Subject: re: Fix for des library
In-Reply-To: spm%lyre.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM (Steve Miller)'s message of Tuesday, 24 Mar 1987 11:09:36-PST
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Originating-Client: <Saltzer-PC>
> I played with it on my Ultrix system, and found that disabling BIG
> caused the wrong values to be computed. I finally tracked this down
> to a missing initialization (R2=0) in the des_make_p.c file. With this
> fixed, it works ok for the Ultrix Vax with BIG disabled.
I just tried Steve's fix on the PC and it verifies there, too. So
this bug is now history.
Jerry
