Werner Koch wrote in
<87lejvwnvc@wheatstone.g10code.de>:
|On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 18:33, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior said:
|> In the base64 safe URL dictionary the characters '+' and '/' are
|> replaced by '-' and '_'.
|
|FWIW, using '-' for general base64 encoding would be a bad idea because
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 18:33, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior said:
> In the base64 safe URL dictionary the characters '+' and '/' are
> replaced by '-' and '_'.
FWIW, using '-' for general base64 encoding would be a bad idea because
it would allow to create those PGP or PEM armor lines ("-BEGIN foo")
