Re: [Lightning-dev] visual identification of payee node id

2019-01-02 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Eugene, > > how about using of Chernoff Faces to identify node’s public key? Since humans > are best fit to recognize small changes in faces and to remember them.  Why do humans have this circuitry? Such strange objects... One could wonder about sentients without such circuitry. The

Re: [Lightning-dev] visual identification of payee node id

2019-01-02 Thread Eugene via Lightning-dev
Hi, how about using of Chernoff Faces to identify node’s public key? Since humans are best fit to recognize small changes in faces and to remember them. To achieve avalanche effect from changing a private key to produce much different face, one can just plug node’s public key into a cryptograph

Re: [Lightning-dev] visual identification of payee node id

2019-01-02 Thread Maximillian George
Why not a confirmation phrase of a few words? This should be easier to implement and fit into a pre-existing design programme. Given a pool of enough words this would surely be as reliable as an identicon, no? Best regards, Max On 29 Dec 2018, 17:23 +0100, William Casarin , wrote: > Pavol Rusna

Re: [Lightning-dev] visual identification of payee node id

2018-12-29 Thread William Casarin
Pavol Rusnak via Lightning-dev writes: > Hi all! > > Currently, when I perform a payment via QR code, I usually check the > payee node id (public key) in the send dialog. However, this is a rather > long hex value, so for example Eclair app shows just the beginning and > the end of the value. > >

[Lightning-dev] visual identification of payee node id

2018-12-23 Thread Pavol Rusnak via Lightning-dev
Hi all! Currently, when I perform a payment via QR code, I usually check the payee node id (public key) in the send dialog. However, this is a rather long hex value, so for example Eclair app shows just the beginning and the end of the value. Idea: Can we show an identicon (for example https://jd