Take your social security card: notice that the number is broken up into unequal blocks. The same is true for telephone numbers. I don't think this is coincidence: has human interaction research been conducted on making strings easily identifiable? Credit to Robert Ransom for noticing this in the first place.
The second point concerns the need for fingerprints in the first place. We're looking at a future that is increasingly multi-device. Transparently managing shared contacts including cryptographic identities from prior encounters obviates the need for fingerprints. However, it does raise all sorts of tracking questions/how to access this shared contact file from a new device? Thirdly, UX remains a huge issue. Cryptocat got this right, and a desktop Java application is probably the best current solution (although Java is no longer as ubiquitous as it once was). Pond is having issues making a cross-system GUI. Unless we can get people to use our solutions, they don't matter. Sincerely, -- "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
