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diff --git a/3rdparty/des-4.04b/INSTALL b/3rdparty/des-4.04b/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32457d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/3rdparty/des-4.04b/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Check the CC and CFLAGS lines in the makefile + +If your C library does not support the times(3) function, change the +#define TIMES to +#undef TIMES in speed.c +If it does, check the HZ value for the times(3) function. +If your system does not define CLK_TCK it will be assumed to +be 100.0. + +If possible use gcc v 2.7.? +Turn on the maximum optimising (normally '-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer' for gcc) +In recent times, some system compilers give better performace. + +type 'make' + +run './destest' to check things are ok. +run './rpw' to check the tty code for reading passwords works. +run './speed' to see how fast those optimisations make the library run :-) +run './des_opts' to determin the best compile time options. + +The output from des_opts should be put in the makefile options and des_enc.c +should be rebuilt. For 64 bit computers, do not use the DES_PTR option. +For the DEC Alpha, edit des.h and change DES_LONG to 'unsigned int' +and then you can use the 'DES_PTR' option. + +The file options.txt has the options listed for best speed on quite a +few systems. Look and the options (UNROLL, PTR, RISC2 etc) and then +turn on the relevent option in the Makefile + +There are some special Makefile targets that make life easier. +make cc - standard cc build +make gcc - standard gcc build +make x86-elf - x86 assembler (elf), linux-elf. +make x86-out - x86 assembler (a.out), FreeBSD +make x86-solaris- x86 assembler +make x86-bsdi - x86 assembler (a.out with primative assembler). + +If at all possible use the assembler (for Windows NT/95, use +asm/win32.obj to link with). The x86 assembler is very very fast. + +A make install will by default install +libdes.a in /usr/local/lib/libdes.a +des in /usr/local/bin/des +des_crypt.man in /usr/local/man/man3/des_crypt.3 +des.man in /usr/local/man/man1/des.1 +des.h in /usr/include/des.h + +des(1) should be compatible with sunOS's but I have been unable to +test it. + +These routines should compile on MSDOS, most 32bit and 64bit version +of Unix (BSD and SYSV) and VMS, without modification. +The only problems should be #include files that are in the wrong places. + +These routines can be compiled under MSDOS. +I have successfully encrypted files using des(1) under MSDOS and then +decrypted the files on a SparcStation. +I have been able to compile and test the routines with +Microsoft C v 5.1 and Turbo C v 2.0. +The code in this library is in no way optimised for the 16bit +operation of MSDOS. + +When building for glibc, ignore all of the above and just unpack into +glibc-1.??/des and then gmake as per normal. + +As a final note on performace. Certain CPUs like sparcs and Alpha often give +a %10 speed difference depending on the link order. It is rather anoying +when one program reports 'x' DES encrypts a second and another reports +'x*0.9' the speed. |