RE: iSCSI: BASE64 and numerical values

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

Excerpt of message (sent 21 May 2002) by Bill Studenmund:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Julian Satran wrote:
> 
> > Bill,
> >
> > Your point was clear. I am still loking at the cases where LARGE NUMBERS
> > might be needed and I am sure we don't want them to be strings but
> > numbers.
> 
> Sounds excelent.
> 
> One thing I haven't figured out how to do is add implicit binary length to
> the numbers used for CHAP challenges (and possibly others). It's a little
> bit of semantics (since we define the length for binary strings), but the
> ones I came up with felt heavy and cumbersome.

CHAP challenges are strings, not numbers.

     paul