>   I tried on 1.3.3 and 1.4 i386 and sparc hosts.
>   For the same skey sequence# and key (whith the same passwd of course :),
>   sparc 1.3.3, sparc 1.4 and i386/1.4 gives the same result, but i386/1.3.3
>   gives a dufferent one. Maybe a endian problem was fixed (I didn't notice it
>   but as I don't use S/key I may well have missed it) ?
>
>actually, this fix appears to have been pulled into the 1.3.3 tree...
>are you sure those are 1.3.3 or 1.3.2 or earlier?  it wasn't fixed in
>1.3.2...

my "rule of thumb" is that 

   % skey -p9 9 9
   STUB ELSE MARY LOON COON EAR

always give me the same response.  i've even got it sort of memorized
(i might not really be able repeat it back to you, but i would notice
if i got the wrong answer).

fwiw - i'm using 1.3.3 and it works fine.

>julian, the work around is to use a same-bytesex machine :)

ick.

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