First NTS code

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> Eric said:
> >> They are mostly binary blobs: cookies, keys, nonces, ...
> >> It might be worth packaging blob and length into a struct.
> > OK.  That's inside-NTS work - do as you like there. I need to concentrate
> > elsewhere for a bit. 
> 
> How about packaging the blob of bits with a 4 byte header: 2 bytes of length 
> and 2 bytes of tag/type/whatever?  The idea is to match NTP extensions and 
> similar.
> 
> We have to byte swap the header word.  I think the other stuff is a stream of 
> bytes and doesn't get swapped.  I think things like crypto code have to work 
> in byte swapped mode when do word operations on a little endian system.

Sorry, I've lost the context.  There are many binary blobs you could
be talking about and I can't connect this remark to just one.
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