Check out Appendix E in the PGPfone Owner's Manual (e.g. here page 77).

This is like the NATO or Military alphabet, but has a word for each byte.

I want to use this in a program, and didn't find it already done, so I'm coding it up. This is an obvious thing to reuse, so I want to make it presentable. To that end, I'll make it a .pm file with a nice interface, rather than just a function that does exactly what this program needs.

I invite commentary at this point.

What is the interface? Most basic would be to accept a binary string and return a list of words. You can join that to print, or otherwise feed the list to a user interface. Hmm, maybe distinguish list from scalar context and give a single printable string in scalar context?

What should I call the module? I'm wondering if it belongs "under" something.

—John

In reply to Biometric Word List -- in a pm file by John M. Dlugosz

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