On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:06 PM, David Given <d...@cowlark.com> wrote:

> ....SHAs more readable; fortunately I never got around to implementing
> it...
> ...t to call it 'CORRECT HORSE BATTERY', or 'CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN', or
> 'LUMINOUS PANDA UKELELE', or whatever.
>

LOL! Yes, thank goodness you never implemented it ;). XKCD actually had a
comic on that:

http://xkcd.com/936/

he "proves" that CORRECT HORSE BATTERY is actually less secure because it's
more memorable (see, you've already memorized it ;).


> Done right this gives a lossless bidirectional mapping from hashes to
> codenames. The difficult bit, of course, is coming up with the codename
> dictionary (and being able to use the codenames with a straight face).
>

i would certainly like to see a proof of concept, but i can't imagine being
taken seriously when i post a message saying, "guys, can you please review
commit BASIC ORANGE MONKEY and tell me what you think?" ;)

But that WOULD be a funny proof-of-concept plugin for the v2 API.

-- 
----- stephan beal
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