I've mentioned an idea in Phoronix forums[1] yesterday:
Since most users won't bother comparing the entire signature (also applies to comparing md5/sha*/etc. hashes), it might be a good idea to map & display blocks of the sig as English words to the user.
Care must be taken to avoid similar-looking and similar-sounding (homophonic) words, but since there are >150k words in Oxford English Dictionary, so it should be possible to get 65k usable ones.
In fact, someone pointed out something like this already exists to a degree: [2]
A contrived visual example (suppose someone matches first two and last two segments!):
Care must be taken to avoid similar-looking and similar-sounding (homophonic) words, but since there are >150k words in Oxford English Dictionary, so it should be possible to get 65k usable ones.
In fact, someone pointed out something like this already exists to a degree: [2]
A contrived visual example (suppose someone matches first two and last two segments!):
With a word salad approach: Even with an even-spaced font, it's hard to confuse the two(random words from [3])
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...
[2] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...
[3] https://www.randomlists.com/random-words