Re: iSCSI base64 and 12-92

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

Excerpt of message (sent 23 May 2002) by Julian Satran:
> If base 64 is neede for large integers there is no good reason to test 
> that it is not used for short integers.

Not true.  They are fundamentally different datatypes.  "short"
integers are int, or long, or something like that.  Large integers are
a software-defined datatype, typically an octetstring perhaps with
additional control variables.  See any bignum package for the
details.  

The conversion routines used for these two are completely different
and quite unrelated.

    paul