ahh I wondered what the original of that format was. thanks!
nickg On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Solar Designer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:16:23PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Nick Galbreath <[email protected]> writes: >>> * need reference to base64, most likely http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3548 >>> As I learned the hard way there several, and crypt-256/512 uses a >>> very custom one. >> >> RFC 4648 even. :-) > > Actually, neither. I think we should in fact reuse what Nick called a > "very custom" base 64 encoding, because it is what has been > traditionally used by all crypt(3) flavors except for bcrypt since > 1970s. It happens to be simpler and slightly shorter than base64 (no > padding). > > Alexander
