That's the document I was trying to find earlier -- knew I had the link somewhere.

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:28:45 -0500, WebWiz wrote:
>�Lynn W. Taylor wrote:
>� >�There are a couple of other differences, but there are third-party
>� >�documents that cover them. �As far as I remember, they had to do with
>� >�how keys were generated for the cypher.
>
>�More specifically, it has to do with how the key is "cooked" before use.
>� �This primarily affects DES, because it's unable to use a long key like
>�Blowfish can use, so (IIRC) there's a process to fold the key on itself
>�somehow or another to come up with a usable key.
>
>�See http://tinyurl.com/w9de for an excellent explanation of how the
>�encryption is handled (the link is to a PDF of a document written by
>�Christina Louise Warne back in 2000).
>
>�Spend some time wandering through the list archives and you'll find a
>�bunch of nuggets like this (or at least discussions about
>�them...typically somebody who's been around for a while will have copies
>�of referenced documents). �Lots of folks early on spent time
>�collaborating to build documents to help other people get OpenSRS
>�running on [your platform here].
>
>�Regards,
>�Eric Longman
>�Atl-Connect Internet Services
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