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Diffstat (limited to 'src/basic/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/basic/util.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/util.c b/src/basic/util.c index 7896be8788..1c15fbc172 100644 --- a/src/basic/util.c +++ b/src/basic/util.c @@ -954,7 +954,12 @@ int unhexmem(const char *p, size_t l, void **mem, size_t *len) { return 0; } -/* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-6 */ +/* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-6 + * Notice that base32hex differs from base32 in the alphabet it uses. + * The distinction is that the base32hex representation preserves the + * order of the underlying data when compared as bytestrings, this is + * useful when representing NSEC3 hashes, as one can then verify the + * order of hashes directly from their representation. */ char base32hexchar(int x) { static const char table[32] = "0123456789" "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV"; |