base58 vs alt-alpha base64? (Re: Re: Curve p25519 Replacements for GnuPG?(x2 now) Re: Pretty Curved Privacy.. ECC Curve p25519 util(Bernstein approved curve))

[Adam Back]

Bitcoin base58 seemed a to have some minor unfortunate side effects to me,
the intent is good to avoid transcription error, but surely one could find
64-chars.  it could have easily been base 60 to start with (dont delete both
0 and O, and 1 and l just make the equivalent!).  Then you have URL encoding
ambiguity, C/python/bash programming string quoting that rules out some more
non alphanum chars.  (base 64 includes +/).  Just seems some ugly code mess
and implications for vanity address etc to deal with non-power-of-2
encoding.

Adam

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:58:48AM +0100, stef wrote:
>> > 1l0$WoM5C8z=yeZG7?$]f^Uu8.g>4rf#t^6mfW9(rr910
>> one of several possible text encodings
>> Others might include:
>> - base 29
>> - base 59
>> - base 4096 (for UTF8 channels)
>
>i like base85. ;)
>
>diversity!