[7494] in Kerberos
Re: des_string_to_key() anomoly?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Mon Jun 17 08:27:26 1996
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
To: hughes@bodhi.it.iupui.edu (Larry J. Hughes Jr.)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:12:54 +1000 (EST)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <4pp9oa$n0j@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> from "Larry J. Hughes Jr." at Jun 13, 96 02:48:42 pm
In some mail I received from Larry J. Hughes Jr., sie wrote
>
> In article <4pnp4g$3gb@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
> Larry J. Hughes Jr. <hughes@bodhi.it.iupui.edu> wrote:
> >I've noticed that the des_string_to_key() function produces different
> >results on these two groups of systems. That is to say, the two LSBFIRST
> >systems produce the same hash for the same password, and the two MSBFIRST
> >systems produce the same hash for the same password, but the password
> >hashes don't match between the LSBFIRST and MSBFIRST architectures.
Have a look and see if the MSBFIRST is the LSBFIRST backwards.
I think it was this (?) which looked like a hangover from development on
little endian boxes.
