On 31 Mar 2020 08:43 +0200, from arno@xxxxxxxxxxx (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. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@xxxxxxxxxxx “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?” _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
