From: Michael Steuer Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 03:07:16 GMT Subject: Re: Use base32? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 20/03/2017 19:05, Jacob Keller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Michael Steuer > wrote: >> [..] >> If base32 is being considered, I'd suggest the "base32hex" variant, which >> uses the same amount of space. > I don't see the benefit of adding characters like 0 and 1 which > conflict with some of the letters? Since there's no need for a human > to decode the base32 output, it's easier to use the one that's less > likely to get screwed up when typing if that ever happens. It's not > like we actually need to know what value each character represents. > (sure the program does, but the human does not). > > Thanks, > Jake Fair enough and good point. We definitely wouldn't want 0 and O and 1 and I mixed together. Cheers, Mike.