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Because with base85 five ASCII characters represent exactly four bytes of binary data (32 bits).
Commented Aug 31, 2010 on Equipping our ASCII Armor at Coding Horror
Equipping our ASCII Armor
On one of our e-commerce web sites, we needed a unique transaction ID to pass to a third party reporting tool on the checkout pages. We already had a GUID on the page for internal use. And you know how much we love GUIDs! 22da5537-de54-459d-9b33-f40f2101143b A GUID is 128 bits, or 16 bytes. A...
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