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Self identifying base encodings

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2018-11-08 · latest 2023-03-25

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  1. AKA multibase + multihash AKA "self-describing base encodings" + "self-describing hashes" AKA https://github.com/multiformats/multibase + https://github.com/multiformats/multihash
    comment by capableweb · 2023-03-25 · in Cloudflare disables access to ‘pirated’ content on its IPFS gateway
  2. …base58btc exclusively That's blatantly wrong. IPFS supports 25 different base representations ( https://github.com/multiformats/multibase/blob/master/multib... ). In fact, recently, two community members decided to implement a new base…
    comment by 2color · 2022-12-30 · in A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
  3. …a talk on this project next month at Linux.conf.au so I'm working on that talk right now. [1]: https://github.com/multiformats/multibase
    comment by cyphar · 2021-12-27 · in Paperback: An encrypted paper-based backup scheme
  4. If you can't get enough of Base-encodings, there is a project called "multibase" ( https://github.com/multiformats/multibase ) that lets you encode which Base-encoding you are using, together with the data itself, so it's easier to know…
    comment by diggan · 2018-11-08 · in Base58