Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_word_list > > At the webpage above there is a wordlist of size 256. It also has links > to other wordlists for hexdata. Interesting, that seems better than Diceware in multiple ways. Where sh

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 08:12:13AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:47:22PM +, Clint Adams wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:10:40PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>>I think that hexadecimal is a fairly poor pre-encoding for >>>information exchange via data to speec

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:47:22PM +, Clint Adams wrote: >On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:10:40PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>I think that hexadecimal is a fairly poor pre-encoding for >>information exchange via data to speech and speech to data engines >>(aka voice boxes, brains and fingers). Reading

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:07:43AM +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Tanguy Ortolo, 2013-06-28 11:58+0200: > > * Esperanto; > > * latin; > > Esperanto is a roman language > that was designed as a candidate for an international language, and even > if I do not know how to speak it, I am quite confident

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:10:40PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I think that hexadecimal is a fairly poor pre-encoding for information > exchange via data to speech and speech to data engines (aka voice boxes, > brains and fingers). Reading out and typing long strings of hexadecimal > digits at OpenPG

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:07:43 +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Latin is a common root to many current languages, and which I think has > a completely deterministic pronunciation. Not really, there are variations both historically/geographically and nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spel

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Tanguy Ortolo, 2013-06-28 11:58+0200: > * Esperanto; > * latin; 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 pronunciati

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Paul Wise, 2013-06-28 08:10+0200: > I think that hexadecimal is a fairly poor pre-encoding for information > exchange via data to speech and speech to data engines (aka voice boxes, > brains and fingers). Reading out and typing long strings of hexadecimal > digits at OpenPGP keysignings is tedious