RE: iSCSI: BASE64 and numerical values

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Julian Satran wrote:

> Not always. Sometimes they are  very large prime numbers.  Julo
>
> pat_thaler@agilent.com
> 05/21/2002 07:46 PM
> Please respond to pat_thaler
>
>
> Julian,
>
> Don't the large cryptographic strings represent the coefficients of binary
> polynomials? I think those are binary values rather than numerical ones so
> it makes sense to restrict the base64 to binary objects as Bill suggests.

Another possability is that while the exchanged data is infact a number,
the authentication method has defined an on-the-wire format. In that case,
iSCSI is acting as a transport method between the authentication modules,
and we can treat the data as binary strings. :-)

Take care,

Bill