Re: [RFC][DISCUSSION] Add RFC 4648 compliant data encoding API

Hi Ignace I'd like to start the discussion for a new RFC about adding RFC 4648 > compliant data encoding API > > RFC proposal link: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/data_encoding_api > If passed, Tim Düsterhus has volunteered to do the implementation. > > Thanks in advance for your remarks and comments. > > Best regards, > Ignace Nyamagana Butera > Thanks for the RFC! Here my doleance about it: - please make base58 part of the RFC - it's already widely used and having it implemented in C would be great. See https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/15195 - it'd be great to default to url-safe base64. The RFC-compliant variant is a very common risk, it'd be great to be on the safe side by default - why do we need to decide between constant-time and unprotected? Can't we always go for the constant-time behavior? If not, what about defaulting to constant-time, again, safe by default? - about DecodingMode, shouldn't this be Lenient by default, following the robustness principle? - (base85 looks great and would be nice to have also :) ) Cheers, Nicolas