Subject: [saag] Little Encoding Gotcha

From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:47:33 -0400

Not sure where this comes in. However lots of specs have started using
Base64URLEncoded in place of Base64 because the / and + characters have
special meaning in URLs and lots of other stuff.

So instead of those we have - and _. Great, problem solved!

Umm... no...

aUkn1IisRZGtQ/o9aFrjyNnsNQkfIQbnCUWXWUA3fYEWIoh+YtoE6jYpu54mbO/J
r0LKgdWiyBBR5olKpNKxPmTt2sjcklYHCly3KeJ1GUZwAth1GA==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Its not just OpenPGP that uses this style of armor, it is all over the
place.