The encryption used is AES256, but what you are seeing in the vault output is not the direct result of the encryption. The result currently goes through binascii.hexlify 2 times, resulting in only having numbers. We are looking at removing the 2nd pass in the future.
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 7:52 AM Dick Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hii, > > I've always wondered what the format of the ansible vault is, more > specifically why it consists of only numbers, as that seems like an > insufficient way to represent data. > It is as if the content has to go through some medium that can only > understand digits? > > Dick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAF8BbLaDnu_xyYYdE8ZbRAjp_i2iY9PJnsA8Eji99HKfNHb12w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAF8BbLaDnu_xyYYdE8ZbRAjp_i2iY9PJnsA8Eji99HKfNHb12w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Matt Martz @sivel sivel.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAD8N0v9W9LrAwGf7rXNg4Ckt%3DxcaWsqwjOKvYAQSDGQPAiB%2Bng%40mail.gmail.com.
