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Note, though, that content of a length sufficient to result in that performance degradation would not be "human-friendly" — and thus, not a viable use case for

Note, though, that content of a length sufficient to result in that performance degradation would not be "human-friendly" — and thus, not a viable use case for Base32H as it's specified here — no matter whether a 32 or 53 or whatever-base encoding scheme is used. (Technically, a book can be considered 'human friendly', but that's not the definition OP is using for that phrase, either.)

yellowapple 6y ago
To be clear, long Base32H numbers are definitely in scope (which is why the specification "recommends" a binary encoding scheme for this exact purpose, and why things like public keys/signatures are mentioned among the proposed use cases). Yeah, it'd suck for a human to have to manually record or dictate large-ish (more than 1kb / 1600 digits) sets of data, but it sucks at least a little bit less when you already know that everything can be assumed to be uppercase.