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we should take a leaf out of the signal/telegram book and convert the hex strings to emoji thumbprints.

It's "good enough" for 90% of cases, but it depends on clients supporting emoji.. :(



That would work for graphical clients but not so much for textual versions. Some type of ASCII-art might serve the purpose but whatever solution is chosen it will be hard to visualise the entropy of a 64-digit hex string in such a way as to distinguish it from the same string with 1 bit flipped.




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