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Life & fun · February 27, 2020

Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans

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Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans launched on February 27, 2020 with 116 votes, #232 of 3,162 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

Base24 is a binary-to-text encoding system designed to make binary data more human-readable. It converts binary information into a format that is easier for people to work with and understand compared to standard binary representation. The tool is useful for developers, educators, and anyone who needs to represent or communicate binary data in a more accessible way. It provides a practical alternative to traditional encoding methods for handling binary information.

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From the sources

TL;DR : Base24 is a binary-to-text encoding aimed at encoding short keys (32-512 bits) for human usage. Update: I was somehow able to write the wrong alphabet in the initial article. This has now been corrected. Update 2: Implementations are now available for multiple languages. The list is at the end of the article. Update 3: I was surprised that my idea was very well received and I am very grateful for your interest. I am working on a project where I need to give the user the possibility to recover its account with recovery codes. I generated a few codes and tried different encodings but I could not get something satisfying. The goal is to provide a way to encode and decode binary keys of…from kuon.ch

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