pgp-words.rs is a Rust implementation of the PGP Word
List. The word list was
designed to make it easy to convey sequences of bytes using only
voice, and is particularly suited for validating public key
fingerprints and other similar sequences over the phone. Even in the
same physical place, it's easier to just read a bunch of words out
loud than to spell a sequence of hex digits (was that 3 times F or
3F?)
Each word represents exactly one possible byte value. To avoid
errors, there are actually 512 words in the list (two per possible
byte value) and words are selected depending on the parity of the byte
position. For example, 0x9e is quiver if the byte position in the
sequence is an even number, onlooker if it is odd.
The most basic usage is to just call pgp-words with the fingerprint
you want converted into words:
$ pgp-words d1c2 25e4 26c6 33dd 94d1 a7e8 c3f4 08aa 9b34 2488
d1c2 25e4 26c6 33dd 94d1 a7e8 c3f4 08aa 9b34 2488:
stairway repellent bombast tradition
bookshelf responsive chisel tambourine
Pluto scavenger repay typewriter
snowcap Virginia aimless pedigree
puppy confidence bluebird maritime
It can also read from stdin, ignoring lines that aren't an hex string
(with -s)
gpg --fingerprint 0x33CDE511 | pgp-words -s
EA5B 81C5 6498 8C73 EE90 DEE9 BAF1 E072 33CD E511:
Trojan exodus minnow resistor
flytrap narrative offload hurricane
tycoon millionaire tactics ultimate
shadow vacancy tapeworm holiness
chisel sandalwood topmost Babylon
It can also echo its input unmodified, annotating valid hex strings with words:
gpg --fingerprint 0x33CDE511 | pgp-words --passthrough --no-echo -s -p" >>> " -w
pub rsa4096 2017-05-04 [SC] [revoked: 2017-05-23]
EA5B 81C5 6498 8C73 EE90 DEE9 BAF1 E072 33CD E511
>>> Trojan exodus minnow resistor flytrap narrative offload hurricane tycoon millionaire
>>> tactics ultimate shadow vacancy tapeworm holiness chisel sandalwood topmost Babylon
uid [ revoked] Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt>