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To generalize: why use n characters when you can use n-1?


bc it sux

On a related note, here's how to abuse the concept of URL shorteners in order to produce messages in which embedding a URL costs zero additional characters:

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/steganographic-typo-based-ur...


even easier, every 64 characters are 64 bits, simply strtolower all the characters then make the '0' bits lowercase... No typos needed, still plenty of space.

Maybe use a magic pattern in the first few characters to indicate a url ID is present.




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