ctsrc/Base256

Encode and decode data in base 256 easily typed words

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Lastresort(1) – Base 256 codec with easily typed words, version 0.4.0 released
story by codetrotter · 2023-02-19 · 0 comments
…I have a project like this that I created once, but using a different set of words. https://github.com/ctsrc/Base256 I'm gonna go ahead and replace the word list there with the PGP word list actually! :D (It's still pre-1.0, so breaking…
comment by codetrotter · 2023-02-06 · in Binary to text encoding – state of the art and missed opportunities
Related but opposite, a tool I made a couple of years ago. https://github.com/ctsrc/Base256 > Encode and decode data in base 256 > […] > You might expect data encoded in base 256 to be more space efficient than data encoded in base 16, but…
comment by codetrotter · 2022-05-07 · in Base 2048