[Cryptography Team] DES status?

[Hans-Martin Mosner]

Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

>... In general I would say that every method that has a primitive call, (unless
>it would be totally impossible because of time limitations) should have a
>fall back method written.
>
Good, that's exactly my POV, and it's very much in spirit with the 
original Smalltalk-80 primitive concept (they distinguished between 
essential and non-essential primitives, with Smalltalk fallback code for 
the latter ones).

>  So yes I would say you should write the DES code.
>  
>
Ok, it will take some time since my representation is currently 
Integer-based and not ByteArray-based, but it should be done within this 
week. I will look at the other primitives, too.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin