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The following code can be used to extract the 8 bytes from a long value and return them as a byte array

public static byte[] longToByteArray(long data) {
    return new byte[] {
        (byte)((data >> 56) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 48) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 40) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 32) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 24) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 16) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 8 ) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 0) & 0xff),
    };
}

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