On 2/5/14, Peter Eckersley <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think the words necessarily need to be spelled out. With some > processing, couldn't you could remove all words from the list that have low > edit distances from each other, thereby ensuring that (if both parties have > the words in front of them) letter-by-letter transcription is unecessary?
No one can memorize a 65536-element set of words, either in the sense of being able to reliably recognize that a word is in the set, or in the sense of being able to find the ‘closest’ element of the set to a given word. Not all parties will be able to set up an interactive network connection between their trusted computing devices while they are communicating a key fingerprint. Not all parties will have access to error-detection or error-correction software for a particular fingerprint representation, or to a textual description of the fingerprint representation sufficient to detect or correct errors, while they are receiving a key fingerprint. Given those constraints, I still have no reason to change the opinion that I stated in <https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000010.html>: base32 is the most efficient representation for any ‘cryptovariable’ which must be transmitted by voice. Robert Ransom _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
