On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(a)endpoint.com> wrote:
I'm also of the opinion that we should just store things as CHAR(32),
unless someone thinks space is really at that much of a premium. The big
advantage of 32 chars (i.e. 0-9a-f aka hexadecimal ) is that it's a
standard way to represent things, making use of common tools (e.g. md5sum)
much easier.
This is very sound advice. It also makes debugging much easier as
things like PHPMyAdmin "just work", The math table's binary version
was quite annoying to try to debug.
Conrad