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quotemstr on Dec 31, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial G...

We could just encode hashes on base64 instead of hex and get several times more entropy with the same size text

Retr0id on Dec 31, 2024 [–]

base64 only gets you 1.5x more entropy per symbol (measuring in bits)

quotemstr on Dec 31, 2024 | [–]

Oh, right. It's logarithmic. That'll teach me to post before coffee.

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