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This is really cool. I wonder if you could use it to generate images instead of this SSH message: > The authenticity of host 'mint.phcomp.co.uk (78.32.209.33)'
by octopoc 5y ago
This is really cool. I wonder if you could use it to generate images instead of this SSH message:
> The authenticity of host 'mint.phcomp.co.uk (78.32.209.33)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 6a:de:e0:af:56:f8:0c:04:11:5b:ef:4d:49:ad:09:23.
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That way you could check the fingerprint for the server visually. Of course you'd first have to have a way to deterministically generate a description of an image from a sequence of random bytes.
- apnorton 5y agoThe [Drunken Bishop](https://www.jfurness.uk/the-drunken-bishop-algorithm/ https://www.jfurness.uk/the-drunken-bishop-algorithm/) algorithm works well for this purpose, without needing a GPU. :)
- suifbwish 5y agoI can’t explain exactly why or how but I feel like this would have an inherent weakness that we are not able to comprehend yet. It would greatly reduce the threshold for cryptographic collisions as the human brain is not good at telling two images apart on the pixel level like a hashing algo would be.