Comment on Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commitComments−quotemstr1yWe could just encode hashes on base64 instead of hex and get several times more entropy with the same size text−Retr0id1ybase64 only gets you 1.5x more entropy per symbol (measuring in bits)−quotemstr1yOh, right. It's logarithmic. That'll teach me to post before coffee.
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We could just encode hashes on base64 instead of hex and get several times more entropy with the same size text
base64 only gets you 1.5x more entropy per symbol (measuring in bits)
Oh, right. It's logarithmic. That'll teach me to post before coffee.