Re: =??Q?Re=3A_A_Short_Report_of_Asteroids=2C_Comets=2C_Meteors?= =??Q?=2C_Dust_and_Culture_in_Potsdam_and_B=E4r-lin?=

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 14:31:39 MDT


On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Alfio Puglisi wrote:

> Now THIS IS an URL!! (Universal Resource Locator) - it has enough bits to
> address every point of the universe...

You make it sound as if it was a good thing. Even base64-encoding of a
SHA1 document hash (such as http://localhost:4004/id/A0C9E8G7I6K5M4O3Q2S1U0W9U8A/)
would have been much, much shorter, while giving you essentially 160 bits
of document address space.



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