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?
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
