AES Rijndael and little/big endian?

I am using the public domain reference implementation of AES Rijndael, commonly distributed under the name "rijndael-fst-3.0.zip". I plan t开发者_如何学运维o use this to encrypt network data, and I am wondering whether the results of encryption will be different on big/little endian architectures? In other words, can I encrypt a block of 16 bytes on a little endian machine and then decrypt that same block on big endian? And of course, the other way around as well.

If not, how should I go about swapping bytes?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards.

Byte order issues are relevant only in context of mapping multi-byte constructs to a sequence of bytes e.g. mapping a 4-byte sequence to a signed integer value is sensitive to byte order.

The AES algorithm is byte centric and insensitive to endian issues.

Rijndael is oblivious to byte order; it just sees the string of bytes you feed it. You should do the byte swapping outside of it as you always would (with ntohs or whatever interface your platform has for that purpose).