[zeromq-dev] RFC 32 - Z85

Pieter Hintjens ph at imatix.com
Mon Jul 1 23:45:25 CEST 2013


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Bennie Kloosteman <bklooste at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also dont understand the issue with Base64  , not a single standard , well
> the whole interenet uses it in html and email so there must be a common
> standard and being 3 bytes  when you convert it to a byte[]    you know the
> actual key length from the protocol and can discard the rest .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 lists 13 variants and a lot of the
complexity is due to the divide-by-3 issue.

-Pieter



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