[Building Sakai] Idea: Change the GUID generator for Sakai

[Charles Severance]

Yeah - looks like Crockford's base-32 is the only decent remaining choice still standing.  That guy is damn clever.

/Chuck

On Jan 9, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:

> Didn't even consider that one Stephen, which is essentially the main realm query. So if you eliminated 26 more characters there really isn't any gain. It seems like removing the 4 dashes from the GUID seems like the only easy savings you'd can get without writing some custom base~32 algorithm. (That would encode only lower case, digits and -, excluding vowels). Basically Crockfords scheme [1] where he already considered these points.
> 
> [1] http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html
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