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Hexadecimal Sucks
ns do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan Kaminsky When SSH added ASCII art fingerprints (AKA, randomart), the author credited a talk by Dan Kaminsky.
Of course, SSH keys are still a problem because our working memory is too small to recognize such long strings of letters and numbers. Hacks abound to shore up our paltry working memory—what Dan called “brain hardware acceleration.” Dan’s idea tapped into a different aspect of hardware acceleration, one often cited by memory competition champions: chunking.
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