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On 31 Mar 2020 08:43 +0200, from arno@wagner.name (Arno Wagner):
> Otherwise you would need to multiply by 8 in a lot of places.
> And you could also use nibbles (4 bit) words (16 bits), 
> long words (32 bits) or quadwords (64 bits) as "units". The 
> byte is not really specuial.

And let's not forget that at the time when many long-lasting
encryption algorithms (DES, RSA, anyone?) were being designed, it
still wasn't an open-and-shut case whether even a digital binary
computer would represent data in 8-bit chunks or not. Octal was still
big in the late 1970s.

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