Re: [cryptography] PGP word list

2015-02-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Werner Koch: On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:19, f...@deneb.enyo.de said: An option to spell out the digits and letters in a hex fingerprint would be a good start, so that you end up with some sort of Something like this? $ gpg -k --with-icao-fingerprint 1e42b367 pub dsa2048/F2AD85AC1E42B367

Re: [cryptography] PGP word list

2015-02-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:19, f...@deneb.enyo.de said: An option to spell out the digits and letters in a hex fingerprint would be a good start, so that you end up with some sort of Something like this? $ gpg -k --with-icao-fingerprint 1e42b367 pub dsa2048/F2AD85AC1E42B367 2007-12-31 [expires:

Re: [cryptography] PGP word list

2015-02-23 Thread Ryan Carboni
On a minor note, technically the PGP word list is a nine-bit communications codebook, with one bit dedicated as an error detecting bit. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

Re: [cryptography] PGP word list

2015-02-19 Thread Jon Callas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I just realised one barrier -- language. It uses the English language, and PGP might be stronger in Europe than in the anglo world. So perhaps the wordset should be retuned to being some form of internationalised english, words that are

Re: [cryptography] PGP word list

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:04, i...@iang.org said: I just realised one barrier -- language. It uses the English language, and PGP might be stronger in Europe than in the anglo world. Right. I recall that this has been discussed in the OpenPGP WG years ago. IIRC, the conclusion was that the