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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by ryanlol on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:46AM (#23583155)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base58
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by VMG on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:15AM (#23583518)
Base58 has certain issues (lowercase-uppercase ambiguity) which is why we now have https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi...
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by xurukefi on Saturday June 20, 2020 @09:59AM (#23583965)
Can you elaborate on the ambiguity problem of Base58? I always thought that base58 was designed with this in mind as it does not include visually ambiguous letters such as "0", "O", "I", "l", etc..
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by VMG on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:22AM (#23584106)
That is true, but if somebody unfamiliar with the encoding writes down the characters or communicates them over the phone they have consider the case for every letter. That is a poor user experience.
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