Re: Cross platform password string encryption

pegguru@xxxxxxxxx schreef:
Ozzker wrote:
... snip...
I don't see what programming languages or platforms have to do with it
as long as they implement the same algorithms ..


I suppose my formulation is a bit sloppy in the above statement...

You can imagine what happens if a
little-endian processor reads a file of integers created by a
big-endian processor.

Yup, you're right ..

Bottom line is that if I write
a program in language X and program the same algorithm in language Y,
even running on the same computer, if I am not very careful in out data
are read from/written to disk, the two programs may not be able to
share data.

Being 'careful' when any two programs need to share data
should always be the case .. That is just a matter of knowing the languages well enough (I assumed the OP knows that, otherwise he'll first has to work on that) ..
I think your first point was stronger :-)

As computer science moves into more abstract concepts, I find that many
young programmers have very little concept of what happens at the
microprocessor level.

Maybe, but that is not always necessarily a bad thing. Depends on which
field you are in, I suppose.

Regards, Oz


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