-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 14/07/14 23:29, isis wrote: > Yep, the idea is pretty old. A variant of it was even written up > into RFC1751 in 1994. [0] That one is already in the pycrypto > module, [1] at `Crypto.Util.RFC1751`.
Some people on the [email protected] list are planning an experiment to study various methods of comparing fingerprints; perhaps they'd also be interested in studying methods of entering fingerprints. >> Or maybe adding a checksum field calculated as the first byte of >> the SHA512 of the fingerprint? > > Also an interesting idea. But what if they type the checksum > wrong? Forward error correction might be useful here. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJTysKrAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMiEsH/Anilqu44jHL/Xt14Gs2Aqkw ZtYbQdMo1t7s2pbtwklrLDXV5iY+WEw+i5LwPSzZWUlE7aBsENcHEOltsToaDPCD 64s5dPK/ADVYhRmT9l55ZlHRZKlBwV4QAy7s+NGDu7KOCu1J9rhEpwlrl5+Ls1dU DX6NU8LVyprkEkHts8v4PaaBwj/WQjjuCX1+0PtKB4sVTNw/pu6hdCwCm3/dP7B4 uqC5S6mModwno92G5DUdZi4pidp7Q+v1mgdLd3y8J3Mri7xFFiJO1jioCR+tCzd5 SEfg+HS7OFc3XJICAVumeSEBdclTUskDsI1cG49sAwYzHS5HutSvMDC9SwGm3tU= =WlLp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
