On Thursday 22 June 2006 22:03, Michael Rogers wrote: > David Sowder (Zothar) wrote: > > Convert to base-36 ([0-9a-z]) instead of base-16 (hex)? > > Or Base32? Case-insensitive, URL-safe, and easy to convert to/from raw > bytes.
Doesn't make it massively better: Base32: dbkr at MQ3U2RL2NNBFGZKMFVUGGYZSIRDE26DIONIUQQ22NREHISSHIVLGSV2JGN3TKYSHNFUDILBTMM4U43KVJNCHCVKFMIWTCVSGOZHXG3LMNBHFONLKKF4HMYTPGZXUC5DYJVWTMUCVI44CYQKRIFBECQKF.freemail vs. Base16: dbkr at 64374d457a6b4253654c2d6863633244464d7868735148435a6c48744a47455669574933773562476968342c3363394e6d554b44715545622d315646764f736d6c684e57356a517876626f366f4174784d6d36505547382c41514142414145.freemail The only implementations of Base36 I've found convert numbers to base 36 (which is easy in Java) but not strings / byte arrays. If the above if anything to go by, it's not going to save much anyway. I'll stick with base 32 for the time being. Dave > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32 > > Cheers, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
