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Date: Mon,  8 May 2000 14:27:59 +0200
From: Markus Friedl markus.friedl@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Subject: [9fans] encrypt(void*, void*, int) and authentication
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http://www.planete.net/~boyd/des.msg
should help

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 03:12:57PM +0400, Roman V. Shaposhnick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the guy who is implementing 9P for Linux ( p9fs ). Everything was quite
> ok, before I started auth implementation. As you all know for the proper
> authentication of the client client's kernel should decrypt a ticket
> received from AS, and for this it should know encryption algorithm ;). I guess
> that due to the famous US law  there is no such thing as 'crypt.c', am I right?
> If yes, than, please, tell me whether 'encrypt(void*, void*, int)' uses
> classical DES algorithm ( as described in Bruce Schneier: Applied Cryptography.
> John Wiley & Sons, 1994. and implemented in libdes ) or not.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.