Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
by bostik on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @02:04AM
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This sounds a bit like babble print, which is a more complex type of encoding mechanism.[0]
The first I encountered that was in SILC, where it was used to make the key fingerprint more or less pronounceable. It's interesting that the encoding scheme never really got wider attention, although it is available in both openssh and openssl.
Similar ideas come and go, and get rediscovered - so maybe now is the time for wider acceptance.
A bit of googling provided me with a nice starting point for implementations, so babble print has certainly been recognised in some circles.[1]
The first I encountered that was in SILC, where it was used to make the key fingerprint more or less pronounceable. It's interesting that the encoding scheme never really got wider attention, although it is available in both openssh and openssl.
Similar ideas come and go, and get rediscovered - so maybe now is the time for wider acceptance.
A bit of googling provided me with a nice starting point for implementations, so babble print has certainly been recognised in some circles.[1]
0: http://bohwaz.net/archives/web/Bubble_Babble.html
1: https://github.com/eur0pa/bubblepy