Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > This reminds me related issue (or perhaps the same, I might simply have > misunderstood your point above, Tomas): How well do the various > wordlists take into account that some (pretty large) groups of > non-native english speakers have d

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thomas Goirand (2013-06-29 18:23:14) > On 06/28/2013 06:07 PM, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > > I forgot to mention the reason for these two suggestions. English is a > > rather bad candidate for use by non-native speakers, because it has a > > pronunciation that is not very deterministic, with let

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/28/2013 06:07 PM, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > I forgot to mention the reason for these two suggestions. English is a > rather bad candidate for use by non-native speakers, because it has a > pronunciation that is not very deterministic, with letters that can have > distinct pronunciation depending

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/28/2013 02:10 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > I think that hexadecimal is a fairly poor pre-encoding for information > exchange via data to speech and speech to data engines (aka voice boxes, > brains and fingers). Reading out and typing long strings of hexadecimal > digits at OpenPGP key

Re: Report from the DSA Team Sprint 2013-06

2013-06-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/22/2013 02:07 AM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > o) Experimental VMs: >We plan to set up a blade at our hosting at Bytemark with >Openstack. Lucas raised the question of having a self-service >provisioning service for virtual machines available to Debian >Developers. Lucas, in a m