Re: Byte swapping

2019-01-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
obs like cookies. > > On transmit, we have to do the byte swapping before the > authentication/encryption. > On receive, we have to do the authentication/decryption before the byte > swapping. This is why one of my items under keep-you-guys-supplied-with tools is to write a pair of

Byte swapping

2019-01-31 Thread Hal Murray via devel
o the byte swapping before the authentication/encryption. On receive, we have to do the authentication/decryption before the byte swapping. The RefID is the only ugly case I know about. If you define it as a string, we don't swap it near the wire but we have to swap IP Addresses (integers) as