alt Hacker Newshow do you encode 128 bits without making a long number? and not using hex?
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b112 • yesterday at 7:41 AM
Far easier to use ipv8, which just has 5 octets instead of 4.
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how do you encode 128 bits without making a long number? and not using hex?
Far easier to use ipv8, which just has 5 octets instead of 4.
have that be the invisible bottom layer. come up with a list of 256 common words, one per byte, and have that be the human visible IP address. mentally reading a string of words, however nonsensical, is way easier than a soup of undifferentiated hex digits.