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The idea is to encode binary strings in a visually shorter form than e.g. hex, and also make it easier to visually detect differences. It’s also possibly easier

The idea is to encode binary strings in a visually shorter form than e.g. hex, and also make it easier to visually detect differences. It’s also possibly easier to remember a bunch of emojis than a hex string.

jfk13 6y ago
Not really. Do you really notice whether someone uses "Grinning face with smiling eyes" or just plain "Grinning face"? Or was it "Grinning face with big eyes", or maybe "Beaming face with smiling eyes". Or were they "squinting" eyes? Maybe the face was just "smiling", not "grinning". Sheesh.
- jeltz 6y ago
  If you select a good set of clearly ambiguous emojis I could see the use for it. See for example the Matrix spec which recommends using emojis for verifying E2EE signatures. https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#sas-method-emoji https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#sas-method...
  - jfk13 6y ago
    Yes, a carefully selected set of 64 symbols would be much more sensible from that point of view. This project, though, apparently uses "the first 1024 emojis from [https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.1/emoji-test.txt https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.1/emoji-test.txt]", which is an entirely different matter.