I was just reading
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vault_guide/vault_using_encrypted_content.html#ansible-vault-payload-format-1-1-1-2
trying to figure out quite how that resulted in numerals only... :)

On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 15:22, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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