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Encoding Hashed UIDs: Base64 vs. Hex vs. Base32

Posted in , , Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:08:00 GMT

I recently looked at using various encodings for hashed UIDs, e.g. UIDs generated by a crytographic hash algorithm such as SHA-1 or MD5. These are often useful when the UID does not need to have human meaning but should exhibit some uniformity, such as character set and length. I considered Base64 and hexadecimal first because they are commonly used by crypto libraries and then decided on Base64 and Base32 where appropriate. Base36 is actually the most compact case insensitive encoding (using Arabic numbers and Roman letters) but is not an option for me at the moment because there's no Perl module for it that will take arbitrary text and binary input at the moment. Math::Base36 exists but only handles numbers.

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