[OATH-Toolkit-help] Bug#666185: Should accept base32 encoded keys

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> [2012-04-01 12:11]:
> Thanks for testing.  The base32 alphabet is upper case in RFC 4648, and
> you are right the tool rejects lower case strings.  However, I think it
> makes sense to support arbitrary case here.  I guess we'll need a 2.12.1
> to fix this.

Great!

> Do you know some base32 example keys with known OTPs?

Unfortunately, I don't.

> Or were you able to confirm that oath-toolkit does the right thing,
> after you upper-case'd the string?

Yes, after converting my base32 key to upper case oath-toolkit
generated a OTP which allowed me to log into my Google account.

Thanks a lot for this software!
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/