On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Thomas Gries <[email protected]> wrote: > Was there a certain reason to chose base 36 ? > Why not recoding to base 62 and saving 3 bytes per checksum ? > I don't know, this was way, way before my time. But then, why use base 62 if you can use base 64? Encoders/decoders for that are much more widely available. PHP's base_convert() will go up to 36, I think, so you'd have to write a base 62 encoder/decoder yourself, but PHP has built-in functions to deal with base 64.
> base 16 = CHAR(32) md5 sum in hexadecimal > base 36 = CHAR(25) > base 62 = CHAR(22) > Minor detail: I think it's more likely we'll use SHA-1 hashes rather than MD5 hashes. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
