I l

l I

Guess which one is which?

I don’t really care about 1, because it’s usually different, and I can’t be arsed to change the font.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Mother fuckers just base 58 that shit.

    I’m assuming that this is the point you’re making, but just to clarify:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32

    The most widely used[citation needed] base32 alphabet is defined in RFC 4648 §6 and the earlier RFC 3548 (2003). The scheme was originally designed in 2000 by John Myers for SASL/GSSAPI.[2] It uses an alphabet of A–Z, followed by 2–7. The digits 0, 1 and 8 are skipped due to their similarity with the letters O, I and B (thus “2” has a decimal value of 26).

    This is generally considered to be a preferable encoding for things like this.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Yeah… No

      I didn’t mean RFC Base32.

      I meant human-safe alphabets.

      Base58 or Crockford Base32 that intentionally remove I, L, O, and 1 (which is distinct from “base 32”).

      RFC Base32 still hits the exact problem I’m ranting about.

      To be clear the (vanilla) base32 version of the aforementioned string:

      “I dont fucking know lots of lllllIIIIIIlllIII etc”

      Outputs:

      “JEQGI33OOQQGM5LDNNUW4ZZANNXG65ZANRXXI4ZAN5TCA3DMNRWGYSKJJFEUSSLMNRWESSKJEBSXIYY=”

      You can use cyberchef to check for yourself.

      This does not solve the problem.

      I meant what I’d said: base 58.