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 threadLester WardMar 16
@jbaggs @adamshostack The whole “gravatar” concept is sort of like this, isn’t it? They are basically visual representation of hashes of e-mail addresses. I don’t think the have a great term of art, though.
Show threadAdam Shostack  Mar 16
@wordman @jbaggs I thought you could stick what you wanted in https://gravatar.com/ ?
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Show threadLester Ward
@adamshostack @jbaggs Maybe I'm thinking of something else (or maybe how it used to work)? There was some thing that made Space Invaders-like avatar icons based on your e-mail address. Was essentially a hash-to-icon sort of thing.
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