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by gabemart 3594 days ago
Something I hadn't realised before now is that a PGP fingerprint has the same format as an IPv6 address, so if you just substitute colons for spaces you can display it as a hipku

http://hipku.gabrielmartin.net/#0F6A:1465:32D8:69AE:E438:F74...

    > Hipku.encode('0F6A:1465:32D8:69AE:E438:F74B:6211:AA3B');

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I hadn't heard of hipku before, it's quite clever. And my current IP produces a nice one.

  The clever dark lamb
  prowls in the ancient jungle.
  Tiger lillies dance.