It appears to be 40 bits indeed. I bet Choppy has had some experience translating hex and octal into 4 and 3 bit binary groupings?
Anybody remember dealing with grey-code? -----Original Message----- From: Shannon Roddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:58 PM To: BRLUG-General Subject: [brlug-general] Math/computer question I have a question: Since working with VPNs and manual keys, I have been having to generate keys of varying lengths. Correct me if I am wrong; a Hex number is base 16. In binary this would take four bits to represent. Such as the hex number "a" would be 1011. Therefore a hex number of "05bde5b843" is 10 digits long. Therefore it would be a 40 bit key right? Just making sure that I am not crazy.... -- Shannon Roddy __________________________________________________________________ Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy Calendar/Schedule See Home Page Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
