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Re:Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets by edent on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:50AM (#24258340)
I'm not sure of any hashing algorithms which use words as their output. Or have I misunderstood your comment?
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Re:Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets by renewiltord on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:08AM (#24258438)
It's just a byte string converted to a hex string commonly. Chunk it into quads of hex and you can index into a 65k dictionary (the OED has more than twice that).
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Re:Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets by appleflaxen on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:29AM (#24258888)
even better than a dictionary: use dicewords, which have already mapped numbers to a canonical list of words.
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