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re: storage of keys in the database and byte order

daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Tue Feb 23 11:16:30 1988

To: Jon Rochlis <jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jon Rochlis <jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Mon, 22 Feb 88 21:33:19 EST
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

> Is now the time to change the database touching programs to use the
> key as the initial vector?  (I'm volunteering to do it.)  I count the
> following programs as needing two or three lines of changes (as well
> as a conversion program for the existing databases) ... kerberos.c,
> kerberos_slave.c, admin_server.c, kdb_init.c, kdb_edit.c,
> ext_srvtab.c, kstash.c.  Any others?

Is another approach to change those same programs to set up the key
schedule differently depending on the byte order?

					Jerry

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