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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by garmaine on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:46AM (#23582685)
Way, way bigger downside is that you've made encoding and decoding much more complicated than a simple table lookup.
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by dependenttypes on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:58AM (#23582971)
Base32 and base64 both can easily be implemented using a lookup table.
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by garmaine on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:06AM (#23582998)
Not the suggested base-46.
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