Re: still more Digest Authentication comments
Phillip M. Hallam-Baker (hallam@dxal18.cern.ch)
Wed, 22 Mar 1995 17:35:42 +0900
>HTTP already uses MIME-64 encoding for converting octects to characters;
>I'd suggest that re-using the same encoding scheme would make sense
>(since servers are likely to include the code already, and it's also
>more compact that 4bits->1octect encoding).
I agree. (and not just because its only a single line change in my code :-)
MD5s are recognisable as base64 objects. Base16 is still appropriate for the
likes of timestamps and such though since they are genuinely numbers rather than
blocks of random bits.
Phill