On 6/23/06, Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > If the email-like address is just for the mail client's convenience, > does it actually need to encode the whole SSK? Could you keep a mapping > inside freemail from aliases like dbkr at freemail to SSKs?
You'd also want it to be possible to write it on a note and give it to someone, not that the curent address scheme is easy to do that with. > > Cheers, > Michael > > Dave Baker wrote: > > 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 > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Tech mailing list > > Tech at freenetproject.org > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
