Newsgroups: sci.crypt
From: hoey@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 10 Jul 91 03:19:21 GMT
Subject: Re: PGP10, Primality questions, legal questions, lots more!

mira...@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Robert Ames) writes:

>In any event, I feel that public keys should be printable, and the best
>system of doing that is the RPEM-style hexadeciimal number.  PGP uses
>binary keys - a flaw in an otherwise generally good program.

Sure, having them readable is useful, but hexadecimal is bloated.
If you print them in base 64 they are only half as long.  I'd use
[0-9A-Za-z./] as the digit set.

Dan