From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] bits vs bytes
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 06:55:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df50c6fd-2f8d-4b0d-82e0-a821c2304de5@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200331064338.GA4895@tansi.org>
On 31 Mar 2020 08:43 +0200, from arno@wagner.name (Arno Wagner):
> Otherwise you would need to multiply by 8 in a lot of places.
> And you could also use nibbles (4 bit) words (16 bits),
> long words (32 bits) or quadwords (64 bits) as "units". The
> byte is not really specuial.
And let's not forget that at the time when many long-lasting
encryption algorithms (DES, RSA, anyone?) were being designed, it
still wasn't an open-and-shut case whether even a digital binary
computer would represent data in 8-bit chunks or not. Octal was still
big in the late 1970s.
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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se
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[not found] <566872408.1293730.1585598590645.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-03-30 20:03 ` [dm-crypt] bits vs bytes JT Morée
2020-03-30 20:25 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-03-30 21:00 ` Arno Wagner
2020-03-30 21:18 ` JT Morée
[not found] ` <20200331014306.GA2009@tansi.org>
2020-03-31 5:35 ` JT Morée
2020-03-31 6:43 ` Arno Wagner
2020-03-31 6:55 ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2020-03-31 9:32 ` Arno Wagner
2020-03-31 7:06 ` Michael Kjörling
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