Re: [tor-dev] Drafting a proposal for mnemonic onion URLs

2011-12-20 Thread Sai
A couple issues: 1. There's no such thing as "bits per word" without a dictionary, or better yet, a frequency-sorted dictionary. :-P (See Alex's comments in https://plus.google.com/u/0/103112149634414554669/posts/FMDg2Vht8sb for a good idea on this.) For reference, the OED is ~250k words (~18 bit

Re: [tor-dev] Drafting a proposal for mnemonic onion URLs

2011-12-20 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Sai wrote: > Howdy all. > > I would like to make a mnemonic translation method for onion URLs. Not > as in a full petname system with registration and so forth, just a > "four little words" style way of rendering and entering existing > 80-bit hashes in a way that

[tor-dev] Drafting a proposal for mnemonic onion URLs

2011-12-20 Thread Sai
Howdy all. I would like to make a mnemonic translation method for onion URLs. Not as in a full petname system with registration and so forth, just a "four little words" style way of rendering and entering existing 80-bit hashes in a way that is memorable to not just detect partial-overlap fuzzing