[OpenAFS-devel] coding conventions / standards?

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:18:00 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Default wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > > Oh, and is anyone working on replacing the archaic Steve Miller DES
> > > > implementation with something better/faster/smaller/easier to build?
> > > 
> > > As yet unknown to me, but if no one does, I will.
> > 
> > As with any performance-related modification, you should measure
> > it. Last time I measured it versus eay's des, it didn't
> > make an ounce of difference. There are better places to spend the
> > day it would take to replace it.
> 
> If you ignore the performance issues entirely, the code is still not
> exactly the most maintainable, but you do have a good point, especially if
> rxkad v3 allows for DES (not that there's any real reason it should)

DES instead of fcrypt?  It will/does.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA