Re: Cohen's paper on byte order

From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_eatspam.btinternet.com)
Date: 05/16/03 

Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:18:09 +0000 (UTC)

"Brian Gladman" <fake@nowhere.org> wrote in message
news:Hf0xa.22920$xd5.1057818@stones.force9.net...
> "Mok-Kong Shen" <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote in message
> news:3EC34CB3.7D30F874@t-online.de...
>
> [snip]
> > (2) What is your suggestion of an amendment to the AES
> > document? (Could you write down a couple of sentences
> > in order to render it 'complete' in the sense of your
> > opinion?)
>
> I would add something like the following to section 3.1 of the FIPS:
>
> "In general the mapping of these bit sequences onto physical or logical
> entities within implementation environments is an implementation
> responsibility. For software, however, the recommended mapping, also used
> here in pseudo code, is onto arrays of 8-bit bytes where consecutive 8-bit
> sub-sequences form consecutive bytes within which bits with lower indexes
> have higher numeric significance."
>
I suspect that the last 3 lines can be rewritten using smaller words.

Andrew Swallow

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