On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Moritz Bartl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hm. Sorry, stupid question, but why can't you simply map 4-tuples to a > 65k wordlist? Fantasy names, English, something more pronounceable? > There could maybe even multiple "authoritative tables" in various languages.
Do you have an example wordlist? With a 65K dictionary you'll need 8 words for a 128-bit security level. I tried a couple random word generators on the Internet: http://www.wordgenerator.net/random-word-generator.php (claims 90K words) cowhage - ekasilicon - democratist - clum - dyslexia - farfetched - furrier - mangosteen matric - beadsman - enterlace - oarswoman - secretitious - incisor - danite - linstock potash - intersert - possum - verbarfunambulo - additionally - enterotome - turrethead - telegrammic - clupeid --- http://www.wordreference.com/random/definition (skipping proper nouns) obstacle - isotherm - pestilential - woodsman - fleet - arrowhead - downgrade - chinwag mansuetude - sinistrorse - sporophyte - qawwali - bell - bipinnate - boathook - bewitch elutriate - gesture - unapproachable - pooh-pooh - rodomontade - cameleer - malfunction - buoy --- Compare to pseudowords: wivoig - datu - siwep - muvu - wkegod rahixe - xniy - fxube - avwo - egujef atop5l - udag - bofoc - ihin - roybuz I like the smaller size of the pseudowords, particularly for transcribing these things, spelling out the characters over the phone, or viewing on a small screen. And a lot of the words are unusual so are going to need to be spelled out. But it would be interesting to see what a better wordlist looks like. Trevor _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
