It's one of those things that looks kind of useful but the more you think about it the more the use case doesn't actually make sense. A randomart image is actu

It's one of those things that looks kind of useful but the more you think about it the more the use case doesn't actually make sense. A randomart image is actually harder to share than a hash (you can't read it over the phone for example) and any situation where you can share the image you can just as easily share a hash. It's visually easier to distinguish differences in randomart than with a hex encoded hash value, but there are very few situations where that's actually a useful property in practice. If you actually are able to share the whole value, you probably have a computerized way of sharing information that you trust and you might as well just programmatically compare it to what you expect and that can detect even a single bit difference regardless of the format. A version of the idea that might be more useful would be something that translates hex values into something that's easy for humans to share in any number of out-of-band ways. Translating a hex value into English words would be great for verbal verification for example. Or if we're being very 2023, maybe use the binary input to feed an AI image generation algorithm and you describe the image to the receiver.