Re: Clarifying the qualities we desire the DIGEST-MD5 replacement to have

["Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Josefsson wrote:

> I would recommend against using base64 in the mechanism for this
> reason.  Base64 is considerably more error prone to implement
> than hex encoding.

> This wastes a few bytes, yes, but I don't think the difference
> is significant.

+1  I was not amused when I found that an early SCRAM B64 example
triggered a "cannot happen" state in my B64 decoder.  Of course
that was my fault, but it is definitely harder to get hex. wrong.

 Frank