Nathaniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> Err, 14 draws from a 60-letter alphabet give you only 14 * log2(60) > = 82.7 bits. You need 160 / log2(60) = 27.09 letters to represent a > full SHA1... (with 61 letters you only need 26.98; since we can't > have partial letters, this comes out to "28" and "27", > respectively). Sorry, I did all the calculations correctly, but for some reason had "80" in my mind. I guess for everyday purposes 80 bits would be good enough. Maybe an option for base-60 output of hashes, and allowing base-60 input always (giving the usual responses when it's ambiguous) would be worth trying. It's probably as easy to remember a 2 or 3 character base-60 string as a hex string, and the base-60 string is more specific. [...] _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
