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Base32 encoding (via) I was on the verge of inventing this when I discovered that Douglas Crockford had invented it for me.

Posted 17th August 2007 at 11:25 pm

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4 comments

  1. There's a similar, incompatible base-32 encoding defined in RFC 3548. DK's actually looks a little nicer, but he needs to call it something else.

    Lenny - 18th August 2007 06:41 - #

  2. Er, here's the update in RFC 4648.

    Lenny - 18th August 2007 06:43 - #

  3. I found this interesting enough to make a Perl implementation - Encode::Base32::Crockford.

    Earle Martin - 3rd April 2008 13:00 - #

  4. here is a ruby implementation:
    http://github.com/levinalex/base32

    levin - 23rd November 2008 02:22 - #

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