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Subject: Bignums
From: rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Ron Rivest)
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 97 17:58:24 EST
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When a byte string is treated as a bignum (for crypto use), should the
first byte given be considered the most-significant byte of the number,
or the least-significant byte?

Ron Rivest

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