[email protected] writes: > On Thursday, December 22, 2016 12:31:47 AM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just finished the basic implementation of a longterm plan I had: >> portable WoT IDs, recoverable with a random password.
> But from a usability point of view, instead of a password which contains > completely random letters, you could consider something like Bitcoin's BIP39: > https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/04875c6d6e6c066377b14f056159a65e2db00254/bip-0039.mediawiki > > Basically it uses a set of sufficiently easy and distinct English words to > encode the key. > So it gives you 12 English words to memorize which can be decoded to your key. > E.g.: > "legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank yellow". I used to use word-lists for this, but the raw length of them made them problematic (too many errors in typing). To get similar entropy as the example recovery secret 2016/c1n8-83cE/aRUk*DDWL+4Sps_1LgM world require around 12 words (they have 2048 words in their list). That could look like this: 2016/project master else jungle/panel soda cable tuition canal napkin aspect modify I still see potential value in this, since it looks less technical. But it only works if we have it in a language the user understands. Maybe I could modify the shorter secret generation to be exactly equivalent to the word-list so we could convert back and forth. Best wishes, Arne PS: The letters in the secret are already chosen to have no clashes in typing (i.e. only one out of 1 I and l: in lists of ambiguous chars, one is chosen and the others are converted to the chosen one). _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
