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by tlrobinson 1089 days ago
I agree with the addition of the checksum, however I’m curious:

> either by accident or malice

1. if you don’t believe people hand type these then how else will they accidentally enter an invalid? I suppose copy/paste errors, or if a page renders it as uppercase, though you should just normalize the case if it’s base 32.

2. How does a 2 byte (non-cryptographically secure) checksum help in the case of malice?