| > I’m interested how you handle verbally communicating an address? It depends on how off-guard I'm caught and how important it is to me. I usually have my phone, which has my KeePass and email salt inside, and I usually have at least enough battery to last a conversation, so it's rare that I can't generate the proper email address in <30 seconds in most scenarios. But yes, having like, 5e5ee440@<domain>.<tld>, has definitely resulted in a few "can you repeat that?" or "just to confirm?" moments (especially over the phone since audio quality often sucks). That said, for whatever reason, people are still seemingly less surprised by "5e5ee440@" vs. "<your place of work>@". On the rarer occasions where I don't at least have my phone or something, if it's something I know I can update later, I'll tell them whatever is easy to input and remember; I separate emails to unknown recipient addresses, but I don't completely reject them outright, so it's not usually an issue pulling out the confirmation email or whatever later, and then updating the address. However, if I don't have my phone, and I don't know how easily I could update the email, then it depends more. For example, my doctor wants an email on file for whatever record-keeping reason and for sending appointment confirmations and such. In that scenario, I don't know that I'd necessarily be able to easily change it without going in/calling them. The first time, I did give them <doctor's practice>@domain.tld, because I figure, despite being an important email, it's unlikely that it'd get abused; if someone somehow knows my GP's full name and practice, and is using it maliciously, I've probably got bigger worries than getting a phishing email sent to it or whatever else. The second time, though, I just asked her to email me the contact update form and told her I'd send it back with the proper email inside. > I wonder if there could be an easy “word-sounding” generator that could be integrated into something to manage emails? I figure you could do something similar to like the horse-battery-stapler XKCD meme or bitcoin wallet seed phrases, if you wanted to avoid the "sorry, can you repeat that?" moments. But it might be slightly more annoying to deterministically generate those, if you care about that aspect, compared to simply salt+hash & truncate. If you find a good method, let me know, though. |