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Re: MD5 versus SHA -Reply
> >As long as we are getting into that argument, there are a lot more little
> >endian machines out there than big-endian. I'd rather we change all the
> >other things to be little endian.
>
> It seems to be vaguely ridiculous to be debating the question
> at all. When you're already talking about the computing cost of
> encryption and signature, what are a few byte swaps one way or
> another?
Perhaps.
But perhaps it's ridiculous to define an authentication
mechanism that explicitly defines non-standard network
byte order.
:-}
Joe