Resurrecting DWF [LWN.net]

Resurrecting DWF

Posted Apr 8, 2021 13:56 UTC (Thu) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
In reply to: Resurrecting DWF by zdzichu
Parent article: Resurrecting DWF

People accepted to live with git hashes. I see no reason why they wouldn't be able to do that for CVEs too. And as mentioned, you can probably shorten them a bit, or encode them in a smarter way, hex encoding is quite wasteful. you could use base32 for example, which needs 26 case-insensitive letters

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Resurrecting DWF

Posted Apr 9, 2021 14:05 UTC (Fri) by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962) [Link]

"live with" implies a burden. DWF aims to reduce burdens.

Some people choose not to bear the burden of git hashes. Some of those use mercurial as a frontend for git.

Depending on your viewpoint, there is a difference between "human readable" and "can be understood by humans". A base64 encoded piece of information can be easily read character by character by a literate human being, but decoding the information without help from a computer is a rather rare skill (yes, it's easy in theory, but only few people have memorized the bit patterns).