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Re:Sequoia PGP 1.0 Released: The Seedling Is a Sapling by lmm on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:42PM (#25452181)
> (This reminds me, does anyone here know how to get PGP paper keys that use only english words e.g. "brunch pineapple house crow ..."? And does anyone know why we aren't using english words to compare PGP key IDs yet?)

PGP invented that, and if you use actual PGP it will tell you your key fingerprint in English words, using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list . Someone submitted a patch to GPG to do the same, but it got rejected for being non-localisable and bikeshedded to death.

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Re:Sequoia PGP 1.0 Released: The Seedling Is a Sapling by Avamander on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:25AM (#25454579)
> Someone submitted a patch to GPG to do the same, but it got rejected for being non-localisable and bikeshedded to death.

Oh for fsck sake. Do they understand how much of a hassle it is currently?

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