On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 05:13:25AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > Why did you decide to go with a base64 encoding for keys rather than > simple hex. I release that hex keys are 1.33 times bigger but they are > easier to type and are not case sensitive. Hex keys are also easier to > translate to the binary representation. >
The P2P-hackers mailing list discussed the pros and cons of base64 versus base32 encodings in September. You may want to look through their archives for some viewpoints on choosing the key encoding. (http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2001-September/thread.html) Fritz _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
