> (PGP words) -- (that I can't seem to find the proper name for) which is tailored to encoding small pieces of binary data and verify (or transmit) it verbally

> (PGP words) -- (that I can't seem to find the proper name for) which is tailored to encoding small pieces of binary data and verify (or transmit) it verbally (in the original case via phones); Interesting! > They are analogous in purpose to the NATO phonetic alphabet used by pilots, except a longer list of words is used, each word corresponding to one of the 256 distinct numeric byte values. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list I have a project like this that I created once, but using a different set of words. https://github.com/ctsrc/Base256 https://github.com/ctsrc/Base256 I'm gonna go ahead and replace the word list there with the PGP word list actually! :D (It's still pre-1.0, so breaking changes like this are fine.)