On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Thomas Gries <m...@tgries.de> wrote:
> For some applications, I use the technique of representing the 128 bit
> of md5 or other checksums
>
>        as base-62 character strings
>        instead of hexadecimal (base-16) strings.
>
MediaWiki already uses a similar technique, storing SHA-1 hashes of
images in base 36.

Roan

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