2 ms·

Base64 turns 6 bits to a ASCII character (8 bits), I don't think it's possible to have a shorter output length.

• franky47 3y ago
  Damn, indeed, my bad. In my defense, I just had a new baby and didn't sleep much last night..
  • iambateman 3y ago
    Congrats on the baby!
  • cortesoft 3y ago
    My brain never recovered from having kids. Good luck.
    • jonny_eh 3y ago
      With each kid you add a brain to the world. So it's a net win?
      • selcuka 3y ago
        > With each kid you add a brain to the world. So it's a net win? It depends... Is it the sum or the average that counts?
• LinuxBender 3y ago
  Adding to this here [1] is a chart that shows how several encodings affect size ratios of utf-8, 16 and 32. Of course that gets into the discussions [2][3] of using utf in passwords and I have no idea how many password schemes support this beyond what I use. [1] - https://github.com/qntm/base2048 https://github.com/qntm/base2048 [2] - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/85663/is-it-a-good-idea-to-use-non-latin-unicode-characters-in-a-password https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/85663/is-it-a-g... [3] - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4943/will-using-unicode-chars-in-my-password-increase-security https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4943/will-using...