> The point was not about the correctness of our implementation of base64, 
but that the format should have only one canonical encoding any alternate 
encodings being rejected. It also makes the format more reproducible.
>
> When incorporating existing formats, it is suggested to use a format whose 
normal spec is strict in that regard.

If base64 is bad, what is good then? Plain hex better? I'm not particularly 
in love with base64, it's just a format we already have to deal with, and 
one that isn't as dumb as plain hex space-wise. For traditional signatures, 
space isn't critical because we're not expecting a single package to 
have hundreds of thousands of signatures. Are PQ signatures significantly 
bigger? (I've never seen one, I've no idea)

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