this utility is useless and should be removed
See also Review D9435
Differential D9424
remove bdes(1) allanjude on Feb 3 2017, 1:39 PM. Authored by Tags None Referenced Files
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this utility is useless and should be removed See also Review D9435
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Event TimelineComment Actions Ah, I remembered the context! bdes was involved in decrypting the video of one of Kirk's lecture series. Comment Actions While certainly bdes has no place in being used for a new crypto anything, I might even be in favor of this if there was an equivalent port available,
Comment Actions It turns out, bdes does its own special thing to deal with a partial block at the end of the ciphered message. So when you decrypt it with openssl, you get an error, and the last 1-7 bytes of the message are cut off. (DES uses an 8 byte block size). Kirk's website already offers a tarball of bdes you can download to decrypt his videos. If someone wants to create that as a port, that is fine with me, but i don't think we should keep it in the base system. |