Re: [Cfrg] Word-lists for Diffie-Hellman and Fingerprints

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Thu, 24 August 2017 20:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Word-lists for Diffie-Hellman and Fingerprints
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:32, azet@azet.org said:

> What's your opinion on the matter?

Word list are probably good for native speakers of a language but they
are problematic for non-native speakers and are useless for
non-speakers.

We had several discussions on that topic over the last decades and the
only solution we cam up with was to use the ICAO spelling.  It has the
advantage that not only aviation people know it but also a million or so
Hams.  For all other gpg has the --with-icao-spelling option ;-).


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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