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Re: byte order

To: Paul Koning <pkoning@xedia.com>
Subject: Re: byte order
From: Matt Thomas <matt@ljo.dec.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:24:54 -0400
Cc: ipsec@tis.com
In-Reply-To: <9804142138.AA13847@kona.xedia.com>
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

At 05:38 PM 4/14/98 , Paul Koning wrote:
>This may be excessively obvious to some, but I've found that it's
>never a bad idea to be explicit...

Usually I agress but not in this case.

>I assume the various flavors of DES are indeed still big endian.  What 
>about SHA1?  Is it little endian by analogy to MD5?

SHA1 (FIPS 186-1) is big-endian.  I really don't see the need to state
endianess since that must have been discussed in the transform 
definition itself.  Anyways, the transforms are defined to take a
byte stream and as such there is no endianess (internally they have
an endianness that need not be discussed by IPsec).
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From: Paul Koning <pkoning@xedia.com>

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