> 
> So local 'des_key_schedule' variables should still have the same size
> and representation.  Also pointer passed to functions such as
> des_set_key() will still look the same internally (although this is
> not guaranteed by the C standard).
> 

That's good.  I was not making a claim that things had been broken.  I
was simply reminding people to be careful because unlike other areas
of the crypto library, DES does have the potential to break a
significant number of third party libraries.




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