Dave Baker wrote: > Hi, > > So a Freemail address needs to express an SSK public key at which a > 'mailsite' > can be fetched containing all the data necessary to set up some > communication. The problem is that Freenet keys are case sensitive, and email > addresses aren't. My mail client mangles the address to lowercase, meaning > you can't just put the SSK into the address. > > Can anyone think of a (ideally standard) way of encoding an SSK to case > insensitive ASCII? I'm currently using Hex encoding, but that makes Freemail > addresses like: > > dbkr at > 667265656e65743a53534b40317574304a6b7a57614c6b672d556b4d44704a684a5a65646332346672306445362d74394d7a7e43517e552c54475668325272505564614c505a775858454d6f51737177376f4e36634964704c73794f61355974584e382c415141424141452f.freemail > > Not great. > > I don't really want to write another encoding scheme. >
Convert to base-36 ([0-9a-z]) instead of base-16 (hex)?
