Make fingerprints more pronouncable #8204
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Absolutely love this. Now instead of referring to a serial door hacker as “6xfa1” they can take on the name “Nocepe” to the entirely of sec |
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About the PR
Instead of fingerprints being an MD5 hash this PR postprocesses the hash to 5 groups of 6 letters with consonants and vowels alternating. This should make it easier for people to remember and communicate (parts of) fingerprint IDs.
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Why's this needed?
Making it so fingerprints are easier to remember and communicate should hopefully make the process of doing forensic work more enjoyable and should slightly reduce the need to paste these into notepad or some other such tool. Also people will have fun when it generates funny words.
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