christy13/6006psets_ng — comment on commit b84317635525af79a254369882f86227af526a6c
File: 5/code/rsa/ks_primitives.rb line 76
By pwnall:

I believe it _is_ converting the byte into a word, because it returns a word with the same value as the byte.

Compare `byte.to_word.to_byte` with `:cool.to_str.to_sym`.