Magic money not working bigendian

I have not been able to get Magic Money to work right in big-endian
mode using pgptl10c.zip and mgmny10d.zip.  It does not work
with either -DHIGHFIRST or -DHIGHFIRST plus -DHIGH_KLUDGE.

The key generation seems to go OK, but then when I "mint" a coins.dat
file with 6 coins in the server and try reading it in the client, all
coins after the first are said to have bad signature.

I have tried it with both 512 and 1024 bit keys and both fail.

The previous version of magicmny.zip worked OK.

Robert M. Solovay writes:
 > Is there a simple way to find out if ones computer is big-endian or
 > not? [Like a simple C program that one can compile and run to settle
 > the question.]

Perhaps I can redeem myself by doing the cypherpunk thing and writing
code:

int isBigEndian()
{
	int test = 0;
	char *testP = (char *) &test;

	*testP = 0xff;

	return !(test & 0xff);
}

--
| GOOD TIME FOR MOVIE - GOING ||| Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>       |
| TAKE TWA TO CAIRO.          ||| Tivoli Systems, Austin, TX:        |
|     (actual fortune cookie) ||| "Like A Little Bit of Semi-Heaven" |

Is there a simple way to find out if ones computer is big-endian or
not? [Like a simple C program that one can compile and run to settle
the question.]

Try this:

--------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	long t = 1 ;
	char *cp = (char *) & t  ;

	printf( "%s-endian\n", ( *cp != 0 ) ? "little" : "big" ) ;
}
--------------------------------------------

On a little-endian machine, the least significant byte is stored
first; on big-endian, the most significant.  The address of a long
points to the first byte, i.e. the byte with the lowest address.  The
above program tests to see if the first byte is non-zero, which is
true iff the length of a char is less than the length of a long
(usually true) and if the least significant byte is first, i.e.
little-endian.

Further responses should go only to my mailbox.

Eric