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  1. Documentation
  2. DOCS-5113

KeyFile valid charset exposition is incomplete

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      The docs currently read: "A key’s length must be between 6 and 1024 characters and may only contain characters in the base64 set." This can lead to frustration, because mongodb won't handle the '=' character gracefully. '=' is used as a padding character to round out base 64 encodings that don't round to x % 3 chars.

      Since '=' occurs in most base64 encodings, I believe we should mention that it is an invalid character for keyFiles.

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            ian.bentley Ian Bentley
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