That base2048 string is 114 bytes (vs 129 for hex), so it's only significantly "shorter" in what you see, which isn't exactly human-readable (actually, less tha

That base2048 string is 114 bytes (vs 129 for hex), so it's only significantly "shorter" in what you see, which isn't exactly human-readable (actually, less than the hex string; for a quick visual inspection comparing just the first and last 2 or 3 characters is enough, but that's a lot harder to do with all those unfamiliar Cyrillic, Tibetan, Tamil, Armenian, Arabic, Samaritan, Greek, etc. characters in there).