Re: Crypt::DES perl module

From: Michael Douglass (mikedoug@staff.texas.net)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 13:18:55 EST


> Just wanted to let you know that I had NO problems with these modules on our Linux machine.

Is this a Sparc Linux machine, or an x86 Linux machine? The Sparc
platform is big-endian while the x86 platform is little-endian.
This is why I believe it to be an endianness problem. The same
author also wrote Crypt::IDEA; and inside Crypt::IDEA it has optional
code blocks for little-endian machines (I guess IDEA was developed
with big-endian as the natural byte order); Crypt::DES has no such
code in it (my guess here is that DES was developed with little-endian
as the natural byte order.

Thanks for trying though! :)

-- 
Michael Douglass
Texas Networking, Inc.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature. -- from some indian guy



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