[5007] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Lots of thoughts on bridge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Mon Jun 28 17:18:27 1999
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9906261135200.18024-100000@ultra.gawth.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:22:29 -0700
To: bram <bram@gawth.com>, cryptography@c2.net, coderpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 12:52 PM -0700 6/26/99, bram wrote:
>I suggested earlier
>that five bits can be encoded in a single character by using letters and
>digits without 0,O,6 and G.
We found the risk of confusing 1 and l greater that the risk of confusing 6
and G. I agree about 0 and O. YMMV
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