Why don't we just change to Byte-arrays for keys? Mandate that they always be transfered as Hex strings and then they can be converted to byte-arrays internally. Keeping them has hex strings internally just seems weird...
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, hal at finney.org wrote: > Adam writes: > > I just want to clear something up. > > > > With StringKeys (the ones currently in use) is this true: > > > > AAAA is closer to ZZZ than AAAB? > > Yes, although your question is worded a little awkwardly. What you > are really asking is, which is ZZZ closer to: AAAA or AAAB? The answer, > as you said, is the first one. The first three letters are a "tie", and > four the fourth letter the ZZZ string uses a binary zero value. That > zero is closer to A than to B. > > Hal > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
