• ikoz@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    There was a cool project that converted hexadecimal numbers (or IPs) to pronouceable words. I think it was also more dense, and of course faster to say / easier to remember.

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      Just make your IP addresses pronouncable words like feed:deaf:babe:beef:cafe:: problem solved ez (working 2023!)

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            Yeah, calculation of the amount of possible strings containing only a-f is trivial. But the idea is for addresses to be memorable. So I’m wondering how many strings which are valid IPv6 addresses are possible if you are limited to actual English (or, pick a language) 4-letter words containing only a-f. As someone mentioned, this could be expanded with 1337-speak.

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              Ahh right, that would be a bit more difficult to calculate.

              I guess you could make a script which just bruteforces all combinations of a-f against an English dictionary. I might try to do that tonight.

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      That’s cool, but I’m sure it broke the relationship between ip addresses. Like it would be hard to tell if 1 IP was 1 higher or lower than another/ in the same /28 subnet, etc

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        maybe they could be sorted alphabetically to give you an idea, but yeah, it’d be harder to know for sure without a mixed format like

        worda:wordb::f1