Binary File Operations

Question

I need to collect 64-bit blocks from a file to pass to an encryption method which will perform a few permutations and use various binary operators on the block and a series of keys. The easiest way to program the encryption method will be to use an array of boolean values to manipulate the binary data. I need to get this array from the file somehow.
I am sure there is a simple way to create an array of 64 boolean objects directly from the file but can't for the life of me find a way to do it simply.
Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply. Havent used bitset before but
I will look into it. I was trying to avoid converting
from byte just because it seems strange that I cant
access the raw binary data. What do you mean by 'cant access raw binary data'?
You can, but unfortunately in formats that are not very convenient for you:
long,int,byte[], whatever DataInputStream provides. I am more surprised by the fact that BitSet does not have a constructor that takes a byte[], and perhaps a getBytes() method.
If I do have to do this whats the easiest method?
Just using the divide by two and check remainder or
is there a better way?I would do this inside a loop:
boolArray[ i ] = (( value & 1 ) == 0 );
value = (value >> 1);