Re: Unix/Windows bit arrangments

From: Edwards, David (JTD) (Edwards.David2at_private)
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 16:35:32 PDT

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    Hi,
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Adam Berent [mailto:adminat_private]
    > Sent: Monday, 7 May 2001 2:30 AM
    > To: SECPROGat_private
    > Subject: Unix/Windows bit arrangments
    >
    > My only problem is the incompatibilty between the executables
    > I compiled under Windows and Unix.  As far as I can tell the
    > order of the encrypted bytes is reversed.  For example in
    > Windows the bytes would be 1234 5678 while in Unix they are
    > 4321 8765.  Eaach of the for bytes are represented by unsigned longs
    
    Hmmm, that doesn't sound quite kosher.  You may be thinking of
    the big/little endian stuff which is architecture (not OS)
    dependent.  Why would an OS swap around two blocks of
    4 bytes
    
    luckgood :-)
    
    > P.S. I wraped the lines at 72 chars, please let me know if its ok now
    
    Errr, sorry no.  Try hitting the enter key when the line gets this long.
    
    ciao
    dave
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