SSB Log Entry 443

After reviewing all the ways you can ASCII encode binary data, I think Crockford's Base 32 is my favorite.

No special characters
No padding to get in the way (there is an optional checksum, though)
URL safe and file system safe (even on case insensitive file systems like FAT16/FAT32)
Human-centric (reduced risk of typos, easy to say over the phone)
Easy to implement (I wrote an encoder in one afternoon)

https://www.crockford.com/base32.html