try {
      DataInputStream din = new DataInputStream(in);
      // currently this assumes there is no negative ordinal; will have to be updated if we
      // add non-stateless strategies (for which we've reserved negative ordinals; see
      // Strategy.ordinal()).
      strategyOrdinal = din.readByte();
      numHashFunctions = UnsignedBytes.toInt(din.readByte());
      dataLength = din.readInt();