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
|it would allow to create those PGP or PEM armor lines ("-----BEGIN foo")
|and thus break message parsing.
This is base64url as of RFC 4648 (+ -> -, / -> _).
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
