Octet String: What is it?

Question

I am starting to look into some network programming concepts for a project I am about to take over, and I keep running into this concept of an octet string. Can anyone out

Answer 1

"Octet" is standardese for "8-bit byte". It's supposed to be a less ambiguous term compared to just "byte", because some platforms have bytes of different width (not sure if there are any are still remaining, but they used to exist).