OpenSAML user discussion

[Scott Cantor <>]

> On a related note, why are the base64 functions based on byte 
> [] on the encoded side ? wouldn't they be more useful if they 
> returned / accepted a string ?

It's been both at various times, and is mostly driven by the base64
implementation I happened to be using. I'm not sure I see much distinction
in the functionality, but then I'm not much of a Java programmer either. Is
there a reason to assume only String is useful and force the conversion?

-- Scott