package utils // CheckBit checks if a bit in a bit field is one. func CheckBit(bitfield []byte, index int) bool { chunkLocation := (index + 1) / 8 indexLocation := (index + 1) % 8 if indexLocation == 0 { indexLocation = 8 } else { chunkLocation++ } field := bitfield[chunkLocation-1] >> (8 - uint(indexLocation)) return field%2 != 0 } // BitSetCount counts the number of 1s in a byte using the following algo: // https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#CountBitsSetParallel func BitSetCount(v byte) byte { v = (v & 0x55) + ((v >> 1) & 0x55) v = (v & 0x33) + ((v >> 2) & 0x33) return (v + (v >> 4)) & 0xF } // BitLength returns the length of the bitfield for a given number of attesters in bytes. func BitLength(b int) int { return (b + 7) / 8 }