Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
Er, I really don't like "left" and "right", since a fair number of people
in the world write from right to left. I propose:
most significant (first) octet to least significant (last) octet
Yes I'll go with that. "First" and "last" were the terms used in a
similar (but not identical) algorithm mentioned in the PKCS#11 spec.
Steve.
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