It's shorter, and it's used extensively in the digital signature format I'm using. On Sep 7, 2012 6:58 AM, "Paul Moore" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 September 2012 17:34, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Proposed edits to > https://bitbucket.org/dholth/python-peps/changeset/9c26fa50 > > > > In wheel I use urlsafe_b64encode_nopad() which omits the trailing = > > characters, but although very easy to implement isn't included in the > > stdlib. In this spec I use the stdlib urlsafe_b64encode(). > > Why urlsafe_b64encode, rather than just hexdigest which is what is used > for md5? > > Paul. >
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