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Description:
humanhash3 0.0.6
humanhash provides human-readable representations of digests.
Example
>>> import humanhash
>>> digest = '7528880a986c40e78c38115e640da2a1'
>>> humanhash.humanize(digest)
'three-georgia-xray-jig'
>>> humanhash.humanize(digest, words=6)
'high-mango-white-oregon-purple-charlie'
>>> humanhash.uuid()
('potato-oranges-william-friend', '9d2278759ae24698b1345525bd53358b')
Caveats
Don’t store the humanhash output, as its statistical uniqueness is only
around 1 in 4.3 billion. Its intended use is as a human-readable (and,
most importantly, memorable) representation of a longer digest,
unique enough for display in a user interface, where a user may need to
remember or verbally communicate the identity of a hash, without having
to remember a 40-character hexadecimal sequence. Nevertheless, you
should keep original digests around, then pass them through
humanize() only as you’re displaying them.
How It Works
The procedure for generating a humanhash involves compressing the input
to a fixed length (default: 4 bytes), then mapping each of these bytes
to a word in a pre-defined wordlist (a default wordlist is supplied with
the library). This algorithm is consistent, so the same input, given the
same wordlist, will always give the same output. You can also use your
own wordlist, and specify a different number of words for output.
Inspiration
Chroma-Hash - A human-viewable representation of a hash (albeit not
one that can be output on a terminal, or shouted down a hallway).
The NATO Phonetic Alphabet - A great example of the trade-off
between clarity of human communication and byte-wise efficiency of
representation.
License
For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.
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