Re: [Acme] [dns-privacy] Entity authenticator URI

Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> Wed, 07 January 2015 20:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] [dns-privacy] Entity authenticator URI
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
wrote:

> The design constraint motivating the use of Base32 over Base64uri was to
> permit the key identifier to be prepended to an email address and they are
> not case sensitive. That does not apply here of course. But it might be
> desirable to permit easy interchange between the two. The other argument
> for BASE32 is that this is an identifier that might have to be read aloud
> over a telephone or voice connection.
>

Okay, well if you'd like to use Base32, perhaps consider z-base-32 instead?
It's more succinct and less "shouty" than the original all-capital version:

http://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encoding.txt

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Tony Arcieri