On Thursday, March 11, 2004 16:38:46 -0800 "Henry B. Hotz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AFS supports only the single-DES enctype. The AFS string-to-key function is not documented; you'll have to read the source.Where is the "real" description of the string-to-key functions, V4, AFS, and V5?
All of these functions support input of essentially unlimited length.
Just looked at the OpenAFS code and some old KTH code. The former has a loop of some kind with no obvious limit (as you said). The latter uses a different algorithm for length <=8 from >8. In the latter case they have an array of size 512 which might imply a limit of 511 characters. That's big enough.
And yes, on reflection, I suppose a 256-bit AES key algorithm would have to be more than trivially different from a 56-bit-plus-parity DES key algorithm.
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