Making strong passwords readeable
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Hi I'm working in a simple mail encryption system with random generated passwords. What I would like is to make some kind of encoding to the password in order to allow the user to share the password via phone. I tried replacing every char in the pass by its hexa ascii code, but the resulting number is too long, I'm using 32 chars keys. Any ideas on how could I solve this problem? Thanks a lot :D
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Hi I'm working in a simple mail encryption system with random generated passwords. What I would like is to make some kind of encoding to the password in order to allow the user to share the password via phone. I tried replacing every char in the pass by its hexa ascii code, but the resulting number is too long, I'm using 32 chars keys. Any ideas on how could I solve this problem? Thanks a lot :D
Kharfax wrote:
What I would like is to make some kind of encoding to the password in order to allow the user to share the password via phone.
You must be a very paranoid individual !! on a more serious note : I'm not certain exactly what you really want to do ? you want to encrypt the password a second time to be able to give it more securly ? and send them another key to decrypt that first key ? me think that you could make your password longer and/or use a better encrytion algo. in your software to validate that license key.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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Kharfax wrote:
What I would like is to make some kind of encoding to the password in order to allow the user to share the password via phone.
You must be a very paranoid individual !! on a more serious note : I'm not certain exactly what you really want to do ? you want to encrypt the password a second time to be able to give it more securly ? and send them another key to decrypt that first key ? me think that you could make your password longer and/or use a better encrytion algo. in your software to validate that license key.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
noooooooo, I'm not paranoid, I use PGP with 1024 bit keys just to be 133t ;) I just needed something to make easier to the user the task of sharing passwords via phone. Lets supose the pass is "a&RT2"/(=fbTR16bJ" is really hard to say all that by phone, the idea is to transform that in something like "LU8C-RA7Z-12MVR-97YB" thats a lot easier to tell. I already found the answer to my problems, and is called Base32. Thanks a lot for the feedback anyway Maximilien :D
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Hi I'm working in a simple mail encryption system with random generated passwords. What I would like is to make some kind of encoding to the password in order to allow the user to share the password via phone. I tried replacing every char in the pass by its hexa ascii code, but the resulting number is too long, I'm using 32 chars keys. Any ideas on how could I solve this problem? Thanks a lot :D
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