[Cryptography Team] Re: Integer>>#asByteArray - "asn1 encoding"

[Chris Muller]

Dang, ByteArray>>#asInteger is inconsistent too!

--- Chris Muller <chris at funkyobjects.org> wrote:

> Does anyone mind if we rename this method to..  asAsn1Bytes or something?
> 
> #asByteArray would seem to be more appropriate for getting the LargeInteger's
> internal representation as a ByteArray.  Print this script to demonstrate how
> #asByteArray is exactly reversed of the Integers internal representation.
> 
> | ba i |
> i _ 873984723987498. "a LargePositiveInteger"
> ba _ ByteArray new: i size.
> ba
> 	replaceFrom: 1
> 	to: ba size
> 	with: i
> 	startingAt: 1.
> { ba. i asByteArray }
> 
> This selector, #asByteArray, should have already been implemented in base
> Squeak and usable by serialization for example, but it wasn't yet. 
> Nevertheless, asn1-specific code should not hog this name in the namespace. 
> I'd like to give it back along with an implementation of #asByteArray that is
> congruent with its internal representation.
> 
> However, I'm not sure where we are in terms of our lock down..
> 
>