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#152 Finger Print Phrase
The normal Fingerprint is hard to remember and must be exchanged using a printed out version. It would be cool to also have an easy to remember fingerprint phrase calculated out of the Fingerprint.
"twenty annoying green elephants dance in china"
Where a small change in the fingerprint changes the whole phrase and the sentence has at least some natural structure. To achieve that use bulding blocks with word lists. So the "twenty annoying" is from a long list also containing "two hundred", "2 drunken", ...
The sentence could split like that into building blocks:
"twenty annoying| green| elephants| dance| in china"
People should be able to remeber their "passphrase" and when meeting they jsut could ask "what was you phrase again" "five aggressive penguins attack harmless hamsters" ?
Thanks Thorsten
Hi, very nice! But such a sentence would be very long if it shall be capable to take all the information contained in a passphrase. Furthermore, Enigmail is only one of many frontends to GnuPG and has to keep to the OpenPGP standard. If such a system should work, then all frontends, GnuPG and other OpenPGP compatible programs would have to use it. In any case, discussion about this should happen on the GnuPG-Users mailinglist, not here. http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.en.html