Hey #encryption experts: has anyone thought about something similar to what three words, but for key fingerprints? This would be a huge #accessibility win. Right now, we have long hex strings we have to compare by hand, and a few visual/barcode type systems. I would love to be able to just verify "Correct Horse Battery Staple" with a friend. Easier to hear with a screen reader (b and c and d and e can sound similar in noisy environments when you're in a hurry), and of course none of the visual systems are really workable. Does the thing I want already exist somewhere? #a11y
@modulux Do you have a link? Thanks to the fact that all search has now been enshittified everywhere all the time, searching for "Babbleprint" just shows me adds for bubble printing.
@andrew Yeah, that's why I said "similar to". Honestly it should probably just output strings easily pronounceable by humans. No need to privilege English here. "foit zoobar hang gubble" is still easier to compare than a long string of letters and numbers where five of the characters (b, c, d, e) all sound similar.
@miki@fastfinge Is this anything like what Docker does with default container names, where the name is two words, one taken from a list of adjectives and one taken from a list of names? I imagine a cryptographically secure random number could be turned into a sequence of words like that using local dictionaries.
@matt@fastfinge Basically that, but much longer. AFAIK, this is loosely based on an old idea called dice ware, where an impossible-to-backdoor PRNG is constructed using physical dice and a printed dictionary.
@fastfinge@matt@miki personally I think the emoji sequence that Telegram uses is cooler but I'm going to guess that it is not very friendly to screen readers
