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Re: Bignums

To: rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Ron Rivest), spki@c2.net
Subject: Re: Bignums
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:10:13 -0800
In-Reply-To: <199704032258.AA24878@swan.lcs.mit.edu>
Sender: owner-spki@c2.net

At 2:58 PM -0800 4/3/97, Ron Rivest wrote:
>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?

Network byte order.  First is the most significant.


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