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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add support for base64url variant
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:50:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7e9qtr58.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnnihaiw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Wed, 12 Jun 2019 21:24:39 +0200")

> I've used it for sharding into a blobstore on NTFS/SMB (two characters
> for first level, so tree width of 1024).  The key is indeed a hash
> (SHA512), so the probability of a collision would be low enough to just
> ignore the case (for only 512 wide tree), but it felt cleaner to encode
> via base32url instead.

Ah, I was assuming a hex representation of the hash.
In that case, using base32 is basically an optimization that shortens
the filename by ~20% [ Using base64 would make the hash a bit weaker and
shorten the filename by ~33% instead.  ]


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-12 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-21 22:32 Add support for base64url variant Pierre Téchoueyres
2019-05-22  7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-22  9:25   ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2019-05-22  9:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-23 17:51       ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2019-05-23 18:45         ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-23 19:32           ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2019-05-23 18:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-23 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-23 19:37   ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2019-05-23 19:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 20:30       ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2019-06-07 21:04         ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2019-06-08  5:52           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-08  8:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 18:36           ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2019-06-11 18:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 18:47               ` Achim Gratz
2019-06-11 20:14                 ` Richard Copley
2019-06-12 15:34                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-12  6:50                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-12 19:24                   ` Achim Gratz
2019-06-12 21:50                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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