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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