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[Help-gnutls] Re: Using gnutls_srp_base64_decode to decode something enc
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Simon Josefsson |
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[Help-gnutls] Re: Using gnutls_srp_base64_decode to decode something encoded with SSL's EVP_Encode* |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:43:54 +0100 |
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Robert Hogan <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 10:35:46 Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Alas, base64 is not always "just base64". SRP uses its own base64
>> variant, so the encoding are not compatible. I've tried to improve the
>> documentation with the patch below, so that others doesn't run into this
>> problem in the future. Comments welcome.
>>
>
> Perhaps a patch for the man pages as well?
The man pages are generated from the source code.
>> What were you going to use the base64 functions for?
>
> For my project TorK ( a controller for Tor). Tor encodes 'router digests' in
> base64 and uses openSSL's EVP_Encode* to do the encoding. I just needed
> something equivalent that wasn't openSSL based.
Ok. GnuTLS isn't a complete OpenSSL replacement, so I think for now we
won't add this feature.
> Thanks for settling this one for me!
Thanks for feedback.
/Simon