[Http-crcsync] General comments on crcsync document
Patrick McManus
mcmanus at ducksong.com
Fri Jul 10 18:37:18 EDT 2009
> It is a cludge of base64 as we do simply not represent the padding
> bytes, also the reason for selecting hash sizes that are multiples of
> 6 bits. Actually recently I have been thinking that we would be better
> off encoding the hashes all on one go as packed bits which would
> remove the need for so much messing around with the base64 encoding...
I like that thought. Though I would encourage leaving the hashes at
least byte aligned, if not word aligned, before encoding. Using crc32-c
would make that a non-issue. :)
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