From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-12-19T00:57:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Networked Marshal Questions

2007/12/18, Christophe Mckeon <chromatophore@gmail.com>:
> what are the security implications of dumping/loading marshalled objects
> over the network if any?

If the connection is not encrypted anybody can sniff the traffic and
probably also reconstruct marshalled objects.

> if i marshal a float or an array of floats, am i guaranteed to have the
> same exact floating point value upon load, on a different machine? does
> this depend on ieee float compliance?

My gut guess would be that there is no dependency on platforms -
otherwise the feature would not make much sense.  If nobody gives you
a definitive answer here you can either look at the sources or try it
out for yourself.

Kind regards

robert

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