[53275] in Cypherpunks
Re: More visprint stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JonWienke@aol.com)
Fri Apr 5 04:51:57 1996
From: JonWienke@aol.com
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 04:29:14 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>An alternative would be to supply a distinct name for each octet. Hashes
>could
>be displayed and verified something like:
>
>Frog Lizard Snake Tyranosaur
>Cat Hat Rat Chair
>Star Moon Sun Earth
>Lincoln Washington Clinton Kennedy
>
>Ideally, there would be minimal confusion in the set of images/objects/names
>(to avoid the "is that a Tyranosaur or a Lizard?" type questions.)
Why not create a list of of syllables (256 would work nicely) designed in
such a way that when combined together at random, they would always form a
pronounceable (but otherwise nonsense) word pair? These words would be
guaranteed to be as unique as the fingerprint, fairly easy to remember, and a
perfect icebreaker at parties. (Imagine the reaction you would get if you
sidled up to someone and tried "SOBgoFALpinHOGmiDOwop
PORtudeINfoGLOPsabRIvar" as a pickup line.) The challenge to this approach,
of course, is to come up with 256 reasonably distinct syllables.
Jonathan Wienke
P.S. AOL's send mail software is a wothless piece of ****.
P.P.S. These "unsubrscive" pea-brains all need one of those Louis
Freeh-style leather belts with their names embossed on the back in BIG
letters...
