@bender@twtxt.net To be fair it really isn’t sha256sum vs. b2sum. Neither is more complicated than the other.

e.g:

$ printf "%s\t%s\t%s" "https://example.com/twtxt.txt" "2024-09-29T13:30:00Z" "Hello World!" | sha256sum | awk '{ print $1 }' | xxd -r -p | base64 | head -c 12
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@prologic@twtxt.net is base64 more desirable than base32? I noticed I get alphanumeric replacing base64 with base32.

@bender@twtxt.net Nope not at all. base64 just encodes more bits