eric wrote:

I apologize... but base32 sucks. I am reading a description explaining why it exists. The main reason of this is because I can be confused with 1, L with 1, O with 0 and U for "accidental obscenity" (seen in the documentation). We speak about a program, a program does not confuse I and 1.
 

Hello, you might be interested in reading this thread, from the p2p-hackers mailing list:

http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2001-September/000312.html

Base32 is a good encoding scheme for representing hashes.  Having more than one binary-represented-in-ascii scheme in the protocol (ADC or not) is a liability.  Please see that.

- Todd