I've mentioned an idea in Phoronix forums[1] yesterday: Since most users won't bother comparing the entire signature (also applies to comparing md5/sha*/etc. ha

I've mentioned an idea in Phoronix forums[1] yesterday: Since most users won't bother comparing the entire signature (also applies to comparing md5/sha*/etc. hashes), it might be a good idea to map & display blocks of the sig as English words to the user. Care must be taken to avoid similar-looking and similar-sounding (homophonic) words, but since there are >150k words in Oxford English Dictionary, so it should be possible to get 65k usable ones. In fact, someone pointed out something like this already exists to a degree: [2] A contrived visual example (suppose someone matches first two and last two segments!): Fake Linus Torvalds: ABAF 11C6 32D8 69AE E438 F74B 6211 AA3B 0041 1886 Real Linus Torvalds: ABAF 11C6 5A29 70B1 30AB E3C4 79BE 3E43 0041 1886 With a word salad approach: Fake Linus Torvalds: lopsided crate threatening hydrant peep bumpy art work earth spurious Real Linus Torvalds: lopsided crate symptomatic equal kaput chunky kettle include earth spurious Even with an even-spaced font, it's hard to confuse the two (random words from [3]) [1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/891066-the-brewing-problem-of-pgp-short-id-collision-attacks https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron... [2] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi... [3] https://www.randomlists.com/random-words https://www.randomlists.com/random-words