Greetings everyone, I am in the designing stages of writing a cryptographic program in Java. I would like to take instances of Object and encrypt them before sending them to another Java client.
My question: can I run Objects through a method encryptObjectUsingThisKey(Object o, Key k) on one computer, and send it to another computer to be decrypted with decryptObjectUsingThisKey(Object o, Key k) ? Or, does this depend on the byteorder of the individual virtual machines? Or, should I perhaps be more interested in coming up with a stream cipher that I could use in conjunction with the java streams? Or, should I kluge bytes into strings into numbers to be played with mathematically, and then strings sent over the network? (This might allow better interoperation with clients programmed in other languages, but sounds like a PITA otherwise. :) Any and all thoughts are appreciated. :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help
