Re: [babel] [Babel-users] BASE64 and hex encoding HMAC keys for user presentation

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Sat, 01 December 2018 23:11 UTC

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Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like the bird and babel implementations to allow for and use
> BASE64 and hex encodings.

In Bird's case, the password parsing code is part of the core; not going
to special-case it for Babel.

-Toke