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		simik on July 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MiniLock – File encryption software that does more... Small UX nitpick. You can't select the miniLock ID by double-clicking it. I think it was one of the reasons bitcoin used Base58 encoding.

178 on July 20, 2014 | [–]

Afaik the main reason for base58 is making it impossible to mistake an 'I' for an 'l', etc. Beeing able to always double-click is a nice added bonus, though.

dchest on July 19, 2014 | [–]

Indeed, Base58 encoding would be preferable. I filed an issue https://github.com/kaepora/miniLock/issues/3

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