Re: Crypto implementations

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 06/28/03


Date: 27 Jun 2003 23:20:13 GMT


"Robert White" <softwaredev@dodo.com.au> writes:

]Hello,

]I've googled extensively for DES implementation examples, and only found
]some Java ones. I can read Java code, but DES seems complicated to me
]because of the bit fiddling (I'm a beginning amateur cryptanalyst :-) and I
]would really like good, well commented reference implementation examples in
]C or C++.

]Is there a good open source or free software example that's readable? I've
]tried downloading libgcrypt which is based on GnuPG, however I can't connect
]to download it for some reason.

libdes, libcrypt, cryptolib, ....
But Read Schneier's book for an explanation of des.



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