DES encryption algorithm

[Carey Evans]

"Joshua Muskovitz" <joshm at taconic.net> writes:

> Here is a handy function for handling right shift.  Replace all occurrances
> of x >> y in your code with rshift(x, y).

Note that:

 1. Function call in Python is relatively expensive, and there are a
    lot of right shifts in DES.

 2. At least in the DES implementation I ported, all the right shifts
    were by constant amounts, so I could expand them inline to
    something like ((t >> 18) & 0x3fff).

 3. A good bit of the code was right-shifting 28-bit numbers, where
    the top bit was always zero, so no change was needed.

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