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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: iSCSI base64 and 12-92If base 64 is neede for large integers there is no good reason to test that it is not used for short integers. Julo
Excerpt of message (sent 23 May 2002) by Bill Studenmund: > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Julian Satran wrote: > > > Dear colleagues, > > > > I looked again at cryptography needs and I think that large numbers will > > be needed and base64 is a decent and not invented here way to express > > them. > > Just curious, which alogorythm needs them? I was wondering the same. Quite possibly I muddled things by talking earlier about cases that don't actually appear in iSCSI. The ones that DO appear in iSCSI all involve strings, not numbers. (That includes SRP -- it uses large integers at some steps of the algorithm, but externally at the protocol level it is specified in terms of strings.) Apart from that, I don't see any reason at all why that means we should allow Base64 for "ordinary" integers. I remember a number of comments objecting to that idea and none in favor of it, nor any reason why it should be done. So why do it? paul
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