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An approach we are trying is speakable IDs. Three characters for the type of thing, then four random words from a list of clean words with 5 characters: xxx_fl

by bckr 2y ago

An approach we are trying is speakable IDs. Three characters for the type of thing, then four random words from a list of clean words with 5 characters: xxx_flown-moons-deary-flake

kibwen 2y ago
You'll want to be careful to consider homophones while also taking accents into account. E.g. if your dictionary contains "deary", it probably shouldn't also contain "dairy".
- bckr 2y ago
  Great point!
- froddd 2y ago
  Or “dreary”, or “dear”, or “deer”. Unfortunate choice for the example!
  - bckr 2y ago
    Our approach is to only use 5-character words.
ahazred8ta 2y ago
Several hard-to-mess-up wordlists have been standardized. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
Izkata 2y ago
This introduces a new type of risk - if it can be interpreted as a sentence, "moons" as a verb isn't really a clean word.