Commit 8f1d170f authored by Adam Langley's avatar Adam Langley

crypto/des: add an example to demonstrate EDE2 operation.

EDE2 is a rare DES mode that can be implemented with crypto/des, but
it's somewhat non-obvious so this CL adds an example of doing so.

Fixes #3537.

R=golang-dev, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6721056
parent d324c4af
......@@ -1503,3 +1503,21 @@ func TestSubstitutionTableKnownAnswerDecrypt(t *testing.T) {
}
}
}
func ExampleNewTripleDESCipher() {
// NewTripleDESCipher can also be used when EDE2 is required by
// duplicating the first 8 bytes of the 16-byte key.
ede2Key := []byte("example key 1234")
var tripleDESKey []byte
tripleDESKey = append(tripleDESKey, ede2Key[:16]...)
tripleDESKey = append(tripleDESKey, ede2Key[:8]...)
_, err := NewTripleDESCipher(tripleDESKey)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// See crypto/cipher for how to use a cipher.Block for encryption and
// decryption.
}
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