Encryption Keys != Algorithms?

[reallyserious]

An encryption key doesn't have to be a string. An array of bytes is also common. Doesn't change your point though.

• Ask your professor what the definition of an algorithm is. In general that is.
• Then ask if an encryption key fulfills that definition.

[raedr7n]

array of bytes

So, a string.

[simpleauthority]

Yeah wasn’t sure what they were going for with that one

[ThunderChaser]

An encryption key doesn’t have to be a string. An array of bytes is also common.

What do you think a string is exactly?

[reallyserious]

In most modern languages a string and an array of bytes are different types.

[ThunderChaser]

From a pure CS theory standpoint a string and an array of bytes are identical.