
7 Sep
2012
7 Sep
'12
3:59 a.m.
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" p.f.moore@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 September 2012 17:34, Daniel Holth dholth@gmail.com 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.