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Re:The UX of UUIDs by accrual on Thursday April 11, 2024 @07:27PM (#40007902)
BitLocker does this and it's nice UX for walking someone through a recovery key over the phone.

Another VERY nice feature is it hashes each set of 6 digits as you type, so if you transpose one, you immediately get feedback instead of "invalid key!" after typing the whole thing out.

Re:The UX of UUIDs by dheera on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:14PM (#40009075)
> hashes each set of 6 digits

nice, now i can dictionary attack any key, 6 digits at a time

Re:The UX of UUIDs by Mavvie on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:46AM (#40009469)
I don't think that's how it works... It's a checksum, not letting you check if each section is part of the key.

At worst, the key would have some portion less entropy since there's a lot of bits used for checksums.