From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: align Base64 encoding with RFC 4648 base64url
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 01:16:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPp667igbuyElEcD@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210718000125.59701-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 07:01:25PM -0500, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> There have been two attempts to copy the fscrypt Base64 code into lib/
> (https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200821182813.52570-6-jlayton@kernel.org and
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716110428.9727-5-hare@suse.de), and both
> have been caught up by the fscrypt Base64 variant being nonstandard and
> not properly documented. Also, the planned use of the fscrypt Base64
> code in the CephFS storage back-end will prevent it from being changed
> later (whereas currently it can still be changed), so we need to choose
> an encoding that we're happy with before it's too late.
Jeff, any thoughts on whether this is the variant of Base64 you want to use in
the CephFS fscrypt support?
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-23 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-18 0:01 [PATCH] fscrypt: align Base64 encoding with RFC 4648 base64url Eric Biggers
2021-07-19 6:00 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-07-23 8:16 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2021-07-23 18:01 ` Jeff Layton
2021-07-26 3:59 ` Eric Biggers
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