Good afternoon,

I'm trying to understand the data format that OpenSSL writes out its
DH parameters in.  I am aware that the actual data is encoded using
ASN.1 DER and have a way to parse the container.  My question really
amounts to byte ordering when DH parameters are generated like this:

openssl dhparam -outform DER -5 -out parameters.dh 4096

Take, for example, the safe prime 'p' in parameters.dh.  Are its bytes
stored in MSB...LSB form, such that the number is interpreted
similarly to a human reading base 10 numbers on paper?  That is to
say, left to right 1 byte at a time?

Thanks for any clarification,
Mike
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