From 077ccbda4009969b300186eb2f32e117bee49ee6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rasmus Dahlberg Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:11:06 +0200 Subject: defined what type of hex encoding is permitted --- doc/api.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/api.md') diff --git a/doc/api.md b/doc/api.md index af2c9b6..e6b0c41 100644 --- a/doc/api.md +++ b/doc/api.md @@ -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) -- cgit v1.2.3