PuTTY wish bubble-babble

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summary: Bubble-babble encoding for host keys
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
priority: dormant: This is an old feature request that we no longer think is relevant.

Perhaps we should display the "bubble-babble" encoding for host key fingerprints, as well as the hexadecimal one, since several other implementations support it.

Bubble-babble is specified in an expired Internet-Draft (draft-huima-babble-01), archived on the IETF SECSH mailing list. There are various implementations around, such as Digest::BubbleBabble.pm.

Should we display both formats always, or let it be configurable? If the latter, per-session, or global? (See also ssh-fingerprint-formats.)

SGT, 2024-11-17: classifying this wish as dormant. I don't think bubble-babble caught on; if anything these days the two-dimensional 'wordart' representation would be of more use.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-11-17 14:53:03 +0000)