From c4be15581ca97903dee8645bcdd3a0ac2e8ce6dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Love=20H=C3=B6rnquist=20=C3=85strand?= Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:03:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] DES is withdrawn. git-svn-id: svn://svn.h5l.se/heimdal/trunk/heimdal@23055 ec53bebd-3082-4978-b11e-865c3cabbd6b --- lib/hcrypto/des.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/hcrypto/des.c b/lib/hcrypto/des.c index b2394c4af..942f377da 100644 --- a/lib/hcrypto/des.c +++ b/lib/hcrypto/des.c @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ * DES was created by IBM, modififed by NSA and then adopted by NBS * (now NIST) and published ad FIPS PUB 46 (updated by FIPS 46-1). * + * Since the 19th May 2005 DES was withdrawn by NIST and should no + * longer be used. See @ref page_evp for replacement encryption + * algorithms and interfaces. + * * Read more the iteresting history of DES on Wikipedia * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard . * @@ -263,7 +267,7 @@ store(const uint32_t v[2], unsigned char *b) } /** - * Encrypt/decrypt a block using DES. + * Encrypt/decrypt a block using DES. Also called ECB mode * * @param u data to encrypt * @param ks key schedule to use