commit 317745549c51229b6c0285164cf8281caa1cc8ab parent f6ea15959cb1df03fa64c25edca1b699ecdebb1c Author: Christian Grothoff <grothoff@gnunet.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:32:08 +0100 fix #9617 Diffstat:
| M | core/api-common.rst | | | 8 | +++++--- |
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/core/api-common.rst b/core/api-common.rst @@ -315,9 +315,11 @@ Binary Data Binary data is generally encoded using Crockford's variant of Base32 (http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html), except that "U" is not excluded -but also decodes to "V" to make OCR easy. We will still simply use the JSON -type "base32" and the term "Crockford Base32" in the text to refer to the -resulting encoding. +but also decodes to "V" to make OCR easy. Also, in contrast to Crockford, we +do *not* allow the use of "-" and also do *not* allow the (optional) checksum +from Crockford's proposal. So we really only use the alphabet, plus "u". We +will still simply use the JSON type "base32" and the term "Crockford Base32" +in the text to refer to the resulting encoding. Hash codes