On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Hex-encoding. I figured, but why? Is passing around network-order raw bytes an issue? If so, and we're trying to squeeze out bytes, surely a more efficient packing than hex encoding can be used. -- Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org