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author | Rasmus Dahlberg <rasmus.dahlberg@kau.se> | 2021-10-12 18:11:06 +0200 |
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committer | Rasmus Dahlberg <rasmus.dahlberg@kau.se> | 2021-10-12 18:11:06 +0200 |
commit | 077ccbda4009969b300186eb2f32e117bee49ee6 (patch) | |
tree | 0d02c027f53ebb2fc00e54e12279e17e71064da4 | |
parent | eb9c77ee3581b0e07c100e05070c1629e20d1f8b (diff) |
defined what type of hex encoding is permitted
-rw-r--r-- | doc/api.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ resistant instead of one. ### 2.2 - Serialization Log requests and responses are transmitted as ASCII-encoded key/value pairs, for a smaller dependency than an alternative parser like JSON. -Some input and output data is binary: cryptographic hashes and -signatures. Binary data must be base16-encoded, also known as hex -encoding. Using hex as opposed to base64 is motivated by it being -simpler, favoring ease of decoding and encoding over efficiency on the wire. +Some input and output data is binary: cryptographic hashes and signatures. +Binary data must be lower-case base16-encoded, also known as lower-case hex +encoding. Using hex as opposed to base64 is motivated by it being simpler, +favoring ease of decoding and encoding over efficiency on the wire. We use the [Trunnel](https://gitweb.torproject.org/trunnel.git) [description language](https://www.seul.org/~nickm/trunnel-manual.html) |