
13 Jan
2005
13 Jan
'05
9:38 a.m.
On 12 January 2005 19:45, Dominic Steinitz wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
What's a LargeWord?
For example, the keys for for encryption algorithms are words of 128, 192, 256 bits. They are composed from smaller words.
type Word128 = LargeKey Word64 Word64 type Word192 = LargeKey Word64 Word128 type Word256 = LargeKey Word64 Word192
Data.LargeWord seems reasonable, then. We probably don't want these in Data.Word. Do they support the full range of operations and instances? Cheers, Simon