[FEATURE REQ, RFC], improving ergonomic HMI fingerprint cross verification

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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, David Shaw wrote:

> Incidentally, PGP has what their marketing calls "biometric"
> fingerprints.  This is just a word list so people don't have to read
> out the hex fingerprint.  For example, my key fingerprint is:
>
>    7D92 FD31 3AB6 F373 4CC5 9CA1 DB69 8D71 9924 2560
>
> But in "biometric" form, it is:
>
>    klaxon         misnomer       willow         company
>    cleanup        potato         upset          hurricane
>    drainage       resistor       python         outfielder
>    suspense       guitarist      optic          hideaway
>    prowler        Capricorn      bombast        fortitude
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is that intended to solve a problem? or create new problems?

maybe it's a good thing the gpg team doesn't have a marketing dept ;)


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