On 4/26/2010 3:44 AM, Holger Rauch wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> thanks for your reply.
> 
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> 
>> [...] 
>> Firstly, as I (and others) have mentioned, OpenAFS doesn't use DES, it uses 
>> an encryption algorithm called fcrypt, which is a DES derivative.
> 
> I got the impression that DES was used because one has to use
> enable_weak_crypto with recent MIT Kerberos versions, which enables DES.

The key form that is used with fcrypt is the same as DES (aka 56-bit
parity checked keys).  The encryption itself is not.

Jeffrey Altman

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