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Re: test vectors for HMAC-SHA-1 - Test Data and Bad News
In message <01BC1441.F2502660@localhost>, Edward Russell writes:
>
> O.K., O.K., C. Harald Koch gets the "Mirror Image" award for spotting what
> should have been obvious to us. But understand, we're running on only a
> handful of hours of sleep trying to get us all to interoperate. :-) I don't think
> I would characterize this as an "endian" problem though as that as more
> to do with byte arrangement within shorts and longs - I doubt the problem
> is caused by one platform compiled with the wrong byte order defined.
Thanks for the award :-)
I agree that it's not strictly an endian problem. I first discovered it when
comparing the results for some public-domain MD5 code between a SPARC
machine (big-endian) and an Intel machine (little-endian), and so the
problem has been tagged "endian" in my brain ever since.
> We'll try to establish if the same is true at the end of a Diffie Hellman exchange,
> but that will be a little trickier.
I'm crossing my fingers...
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