On 06/28/2013 06:07 PM, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > I forgot to mention the reason for these two suggestions. English is a > rather bad candidate for use by non-native speakers, because it has a > pronunciation that is not very deterministic, with letters that can have > distinct pronunciation depending on the word.
Yeah. Let's do it in Chinese. Intonations are so much more fun... There's about 552 basic sounds in Chinese, with 4 intonations each, that makes it 2208 possibilities. So with very few Chinese words, we can encode a lot of the bits of a PGP key. That would be so much more efficient. :) Seriously, I do agree. Some of the words I read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_word_list, I didn't even know them. I'm not sure learning that Aardvark is an animal, or that Algol is a star is helpful in every day life, and I don't think it's worth forcing that knowledge on non-english natives, just for the sake of exchanging PGP fingerprints. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51cf09f2.7010...@debian.org