Adam Shostack  Mar 15

Is there a term of art for usable display of hashes, keys or other crypto material?

I want things that are recognizable to a person "at a glance" and change dramatically on a small change. (thanks for the clarifying q, @jbaggs !)

I'd used the phrase "visual hash" but I'm getting a lot of things about hashing images (eg, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaofeng-Wang-32/publication/276428507_A_Visual_Model-Based_Perceptual_Image_Hash_for_Content_Authentication/links/5593471908ae5af2b0eb7420/A-Visual-Model-Based-Perceptual-Image-Hash-for-Content-Authentication.pdf)

Think the sorts of swirling dot displays Apple uses something when you migrate between phones.

Show threadjbaggs

@adamshostack Before I boost this, do you mean intuitively recognizable upon seeing, in the way SSH tried to do with "ASCII art"?

(Just followed the link and oh look at all of those square roots and fun set theory stuff.)

Mar 15 at 11:51pmWeb
Show threadAdam Shostack  Mar 16
@jbaggs yeah not that stuff. Updated my post.
Show threadAdam Shostack  Mar 16
@jbaggs Also it occurs to me that I should cc @raph who might have forgotten he ever played with the concept ;)
Show threadRaph LevienMar 16
@adamshostack @jbaggs https://raphlinus.github.io/personal/2017/10/12/what-im-working-on.html if you want the most recent link, it points to stuff originally from 1996.
What I’m working on at Recurse Center

I’m almost 3/4 of the way through my batch at Recurse Center. I’ve been working on a bunch of things, and thought it might be useful to go over them in some detail.

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