Most of them are now _mandatory_ P3 scripts, because I'm tired of
maintaining everything to be compatible with both versions.
The current exceptions are gdb.py (which has to live with whatever gdb
gives it), and kh2reg.py (which is actually designed for other people
to use, and some of them might still be stuck on P2 for the moment).
The number of people has been steadily increasing who read our source
code with an editor that thinks tab stops are 4 spaces apart, as
opposed to the traditional tty-derived 8 that the PuTTY code expects.
So I've been wondering for ages about just fixing it, and switching to
a spaces-only policy throughout the code. And I recently found out
about 'git blame -w', which should make this change not too disruptive
for the purposes of source-control archaeology; so perhaps now is the
time.
While I'm at it, I've also taken the opportunity to remove all the
trailing spaces from source lines (on the basis that git dislikes
them, and is the only thing that seems to have a strong opinion one
way or the other).
Apologies to anyone downstream of this code who has complicated patch
sets to rebase past this change. I don't intend it to be needed again.
DES was the next target in my ongoing programme of trying to make all
our crypto code constant-time. Unfortunately, DES is very hard to make
constant-time and still have any kind of performance: my early timing
tests suggest that the implementation I have here is about 4.5 times
slower than the implementation it's replacing. That's about the same
factor as the new AES code when it's not in parallel mode and not
superseded by hardware acceleration - but of course the difference is
that AES usually _is_ superseded by HW acceleration or (failing that)
in parallel mode. This DES implementation doesn't parallelise, and
there's no hardware alternative, so DES is going to be this slow all
the time, unless someone sends me code that does it better.
But hopefully that isn't too big a problem. The main use for DES these
days is legacy devices whose SSH servers haven't been updated to speak
anything more modern, so with any luck those devices will also be old
and slow enough that _their_ end will be the bottleneck in connection
speed!
