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by dilap 3599 days ago
It's software, but it seems like some sort of digit-coloring scheme for hashes could make fakes easy to spot by eye. The simplest thing would just be a different color for every character (and and pick very distinct colors for similarly-shpaed characters). Or maybe color groups of 3 digits or something.
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If you're using software to display both key ids, why not just use software to compare them?
They may be on different devices, for example. I agree we should use software to compare them whenever possible, but sometimes it is practical to be able to eyeball differences.