On 2014-08-11, at 08:00, Ward, Mike S wrote: > We are writing a requestor client in CICS, and are communicating with a web > service on a distributed box. They require us to digitally sign the request > message. The little box does not understand EBCDIC, so I have to convert the > signature to ascii. > Good explanation. Yet I am left wondering:
o If the signature is intrinsically, at the lowest level, a binary datum which must be expressed as text, why it is first converted to (useless) EBCDIC, requiring a further conversion to ASCII. o Once the signature is expressed as ASCII text, why it must be further encoded as base64? -- gil
