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		com on Feb 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anonymous vs. HBGary: the aftermath Bytes are 8 bits - UTF-8 gets most of ASCII in 1 byte (8 bits) and many (most?) other language glyphs can be encoded in 2 bytes or so (16 bits). A 16 byte field can hold up to 16 ASCII characters, or perhaps 8 CJK glyphs that might encode a short kanji or hanzi password.

yuhong on Feb 25, 2011 [–]

"A 16 byte field can hold up to 16 ASCII characters, or perhaps 8 CJK glyphs that might encode a short kanji or hanzi password."

Assuming that you are using legacy encodings, of course.

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