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by chowells 714 days ago
Custom logic to serialize a number as a set of symbols hardly comes near the threshold of "rolling your own crypto". So long as they follow a standard to generate the number, the serialization is basically irrelevant as long as it's reversible.
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Right, as long as...

However, it would not be the first time that those being "creative" in their visible parts were also "creative" in the less visible details.

So my confidence in those just following the RFC would generally be higher.