Author: Gregory Maxwell 2013-10-18 23:58:27
Published on: 2013-10-18T23:58:27+00:00
The email thread shared contains a code for a wordlist solver with a visual similarity matrix of 52x52 letters. The author of the email has suggested avoiding words that could look similar when written down while encoding public and private keys, giving examples such as 'public', 'private' and 'secret'. They also provided a search utility to identify words that only differ by specific letters. The email includes C language code for this utility that compares each word in an English wordlist against every other word, identifying pairs that differ by specific letters and printing them. The code requires an English wordlist file which can be downloaded from a GitHub repository. The email thread also includes a promotional message for Intel webinars on Code for Performance.
Updated on: 2023-05-19T17:33:46.574685+00:00