Can't PGP fingerprints be encoded into shorter strings like YT video identifiers, but not case-sensitive? Somehow get usability of PGP fingerprints into the ballpark of phone numbers.
@tetrislife No, generating collisions would be trivial.
@tetrislife they're normally 20 bytes, per below source. So 40 characters [20 bytes * (2 characters / 1 byte)] in the normal hexadecimal encoding. If you encode them in Base32 you need only 32 characters [20 bytes * (8 characters / 5 bytes)] and it's an alphanumeric case-insensitive encoding. Still not short, but at least an improvement.
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/32087/how-to-generate-fingerprint-for-pgp-public-key
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@khird yeah, impossible to get there ... @markpaine thanks
