Public Key format

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 09:12:15PM +0100, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:

> > I'm writing a storage app for storing the Ed25519 pub keys and want to do
> > some basic verification when a user submits their public key.
> > 
> > Is it just A-Za-z0-9 ? or can it contain special chars as well?
> > 
> > I'm assuming it will be in the range of printable characters?
> 
> It is base64, so a handfull more characters are allowed, but all 
> printable.
> 
> (would have to lookup the exact chars used)

It's standard base64 encoding, without padding characters. The allowed
characters are: A-Z a-z 0-9 + /

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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