CGI, SCGI and Certificates (was Re: [ANN] Gemini browser for iOS)

[Michael Lazar]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:50 PM solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> wrote:
>
> I will express a moderate preference for the "hexadecimal with colons
> between bytes" notation.  It takes up more space than base64, but as a
> pubnix admin I have people mailing me ssh public keys all the time.
> Sometimes they attach them, and I'm happy, but other times they just
> paste 'em right into the email and either their mail client splits the
> key over several lines and I have to join them back together, or they
> are sent as one long line and then mutt wraps them on my end and inserts
> +s or =s or somesuch where it wraps, which blend right in with the
> actual key content.  It's a fiddly thing.  The hexadecimal colon format
> is way easier to work with via eyeball.

I have a slight preference towards not sticking the colons between bytes:

- It's easier to generate from bytes without needing to insert the colons
- It's easier to convert back to bytes without needing to remove the colons
- It would have a marginally smaller footprint
- It would look more like a UUID when displayed or inserted into a URL path