On Friday 23 June 2006 12:36, Michael Rogers 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?
Well yes, but the user still needs some piece of information to tell the node what the short mapping maps to, and that's really the problem. Dave > > 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 >
