Error safe/correcting resource identifier
- by Martin
The receiver is my website, the sender is the same but the medium is noisy, a user. He will read an alphanumeric code of length 6 and later input the same code to identify a resource. A good use for a error correcting code, I thought, and rather than do the research I thought I'd just put the question out there. Or I might be going about it the wrong way, since the situation is rather like sending a perfect dictionary along with every transmission.
The requirements on the code are simply:
6 alphanumeric digits, to start with until I run out, anyway.
If the user gets it wrong I should still be able to identify the right resource.
No resource is preferable to the wrong one.
Easy to code or have free libraries for .net
Any suggestions?