Is it weird that when I see some code carefully construct the three bytes "01 00 01" I immediately get alarm bells in my head saying "RSA RSA RSA RSA"?
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At the hardware level there isn't such a thing as bignum, that is a software abstraction of multiple words... "Ordering of machine words within big number is a problem similar to ordering bits within single machine words" abstraction can order that separately too.
You're the one who assumed this had anything to do with hardware, which it didn't. Though hardware that can process bignums *does* exist. So does hardware with 24-bit word sizes.
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Hardware processing bignums is still an abstraction on top of it's word size. I didn't say it was impossible I said there is an **assumption** as I don't know where the string of hexadecimal came from. Also 24bit word something like the SDS 9 Series from 1962.
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