On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:07:47AM -0700, James Yonan wrote:
> 
> I was thinking more about maintaining proper key parity.  Does a client of
> EVP need to worry about making sure that if DES is the underlying cipher,
> that passed keys have the proper parity?

Generally, people just ignore the parity bits, however you can
strictly check.  IIRC, the default in OpenSSL (ie, the EVP interface)
is to ignore them.

John
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