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Diffstat (limited to 'libbutl/base64.hxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | libbutl/base64.hxx | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/libbutl/base64.hxx b/libbutl/base64.hxx index 6f8ef02..a0d1450 100644 --- a/libbutl/base64.hxx +++ b/libbutl/base64.hxx @@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ namespace butl LIBBUTL_SYMEXPORT std::string base64_encode (const std::vector<char>&); - // Encode a stream or a buffer using base64url (RFC 4648), a base64 variant + // Encode a stream or a buffer using base64url (RFC4648), a base64 variant // with different 62nd and 63rd alphabet characters (- and _ instead of ~ - // and .) to make it filesystem safe, and optional padding because the + // and .; to make it filesystem safe) and optional padding because the // padding character `=` would have to be percent-encoded to be safe in - // URLs. This implementation does not output any padding, newlines or any - // other whitespace in order to conform to RFC7519: JSON Web Token (JWT) and - // RFC7515: JSON Web Signature (JWS). + // URLs. This implementation does not output any padding, newlines or any + // other whitespace (which is required, for example, by RFC7519: JSON Web + // Token (JWT) and RFC7515: JSON Web Signature (JWS)). // // Note that base64url decoding has not yet been implemented. // |