Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:12723 comp.unix.microport:3099 sci.crypt:1782
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!gatech!emory!stiatl!todd
From: todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.i386,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Decrypting Files Encrypted on Another Machine
Keywords: crypt portable
Message-ID: <4119@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 12:46:49 GMT
References: <198@rancho.uucp>
Reply-To: todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., a Dun & Bradstreet Company
Lines: 16

In article <198@rancho.uucp> rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
>I have been unsuccessful in taking files which have been encrypted on
>an NCR Tower using crypt(1) and decrypting them on a microport Sys
>V/386 system. 


More than likely, integers are being stored in the encrypted file if
the encrypting program is not treating the input and output files as
byte streams.  Due to differences in architectures between the Tower
(68000, I think) and the 386, integers are stored with a different
byte ordering.  You need a crypt/decrypt that is specifically
non-architecture dependent.

   ...!gatech!stiatl!todd
   Todd Merriman * 404-377-TOFU * Atlanta, GA
   Note:  I have no idea what my employer's views on the subject are.