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

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Thu Jun 11 21:45:41 BST 2020


It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 04:18:37PM -0400, Michael Lazar wrote:
>  
> > 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
> 
> Actually, the marginally smaller footprint is a really good point which
> largely invalidates my arguments about making them easy to stick in
> emails.  Without colons, a 256 bit hash formatted as hex is 64
> characters long, which will fit in a single line.  With colons, they'd
> be 96 characters which typically won't.  So, let's not do them.
> 
> Upper or lower case?

  Yes.

  -spc (Or mu.  I'll accept both)



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