[tahoe-dev] Base32

[Jeremy R. Fishman]

zooko wrote:
> Hello, Jeremy Fishman.  Thanks for looking at the tahoe source.
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> zooko wrote:
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No problem, it's great stuff!
> There's one more difference, which is visible only when the length of  
> the input in bytes isn't a multiple of 5:
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Yes, I knew of that, but didn't bother to check if base32 encoding was 
ever used on strings with partial quanta.
> I would not reject a patch to replace zbase32 with suitably wrapped  
> base64, especially if it came with tests of the padding situation and  
> measurements of performance.  :-)
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I'll be happy to if I get to it, as I would be glad to begin to 
contribute.  I'm working on project implementing Chord/DHash with 
Twisted/Foolscap, in case that sounds interesting.  I haven't looked yet 
at how hard it would be to integrate into the Tahoe storage backend, but 
if you have any starting tips/pointers I'd be much obliged.

  - Jeremy