byteorder of java objects

2000-04-03 Thread Seth R Arnold
Greetings everyone, I am in the designing stages of writing a cryptographic program in Java. I would like to take instances of Object and encrypt them before sending them to another Java client. My question: can I run Objects through a method encryptObjectUsingThisKey(Object o, Key k) on one comp

Re: byteorder of java objects

2000-04-03 Thread tschmid
> Or, should I perhaps be more interested in coming up with a stream > cipher that I could use in conjunction with the java streams? Sounds like you don't have much experience in the crypto field. Given that, you should NOT try to invent an algorithm for production systems.

Re: byteorder of java objects

2000-04-03 Thread tschmid
Ooops... rest of my thoughts comes with this mail. > Or, should I perhaps be more interested in coming up with a stream > cipher that I could use in conjunction with the java streams? Streams are very convenient for crypto purposes, so most libraries use them. For some ideas (and a free lib) have

Re: byteorder of java objects

2000-04-03 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 3 April 2000, at 12 h 27, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Or, should I perhaps be more interested in coming up with a stream > > cipher that I could use in conjunction with the java streams? Good idea. BlowfishDataOutputStream :-) > Sounds like you don't have much experien

Latest Revision of the Debian/JAVA FAQ

2000-04-03 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I have added some new stuff to the FAQ and now looks fairly complete. Since there have been at least two people volunteering for adoption of the FAQ I might move the sources to the DDP's CVS area and let anyone modify it. Meanwhile the sources (sgml) and the html version can be fou

Re: byteorder of java objects

2000-04-03 Thread Seth R Arnold
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000403 03:27]: > > Or, should I perhaps be more interested in coming up with a stream > > cipher that I could use in conjunction with the java streams? > > Sounds like you don't have much experience in the crypto field. Given that, > you should NOT try to i