Re: ssh-ssl patch

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From: ASTY Patrick
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00

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Eric Young wrote:
> 
> ASTY Patrick wrote:
> > The changes also subsitute the use of the SSLeay symmetric key ciphers
> > for the SSH ones (with the exception of TSS, which is not a standard
> > cipher)."
> 
> I've had a look at why SSLeay's blowfish in cbc mode does not
> interoperate
> with the version in SSH, and it is because while blowfish is internally
> a big-endian algorithm, SSH's cbc code is loading the data
> little-endian.
> 
> It is relatively simple to add code to do things the broken way if
> required...
> any interest?
> 

Why not? But it is not a real problem as "big-endian + big-endian ==
little-endian + little-endian"...

BTW, the patch http://www.micronet.fr/~pasty/pasty/ssh-1.2.23-ssl.tar.gz
is available.

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A.C.I.C. / ASTY Patrick

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mail: pasty@micronet.fr

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