commit 69ca174397987a0e743cc1b790876944de25636d
parent 5aa5fc546c5b99bc81c8d80c796faa847bf57a36
Author: Marcello Stanisci <marcello.stanisci@inria.fr>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:24:02 +0200
adding 53-bit advice
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1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/api-mint.rst b/api-mint.rst
@@ -721,6 +721,11 @@ Binary Blob Specification
This section largely corresponds to the definitions in taler_signatures.h. You may also want to refer to this code, as it offers additional details on each of the members of the structs.
+ .. note::
+
+ Due to the way of handling `big` numbers by some platforms (such that `JavaScript`, for exapmle), wherever the following specification mentions a 64-bit value, the actual implementations
+ are strongly advised to rely on arithmetic up to 53 bits.
+
This section specifies the binary representation of messages used in Taler's protocols. The message formats are given in a C-style pseudocode notation. Padding is always specified explicitly, and numeric values are in network byte order (big endian).
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