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Concealed auth: add note about base64
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DavidSchinazi committed Sep 13, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -433,13 +433,14 @@ send it. This document defines the "Concealed-Auth-Export" request header field
for this purpose. The Concealed-Auth-Export header field's value is a
Structured Field Byte Sequence (see {{Section 3.3.5 of
!STRUCTURED-FIELDS=RFC8941}}) that contains the 48-byte key exporter output
(see {{output}}), without any parameters. For example:
(see {{output}}), without any parameters. Note that Structured Field Byte
Sequences are encoded using the non-URL-safe variant of base64. For example:

~~~ http-message
NOTE: '\' line wrapping per RFC 8792

Concealed-Auth-Export: :VGhpcyBleGFtcGxlIFRMUyBleHBvcn\
RlciBvdXRwdXQgaXMgNDggYnl0ZXMgI/+h:
Concealed-Auth-Export: :VGhpc+BleGFtcGxlIFRMU/BleHBvcn\
Rlc+BvdXRwdXQ/aXMgNDggYnl0ZXMgI/+h:
~~~
{: #fig-int-hdr-example title="Example Concealed-Auth-Export Header Field"}

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