IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember

Bratmon

The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new time.

Singletail

I'm old. I can't remember breakfast.

OJFord

The first (of two) examples encodes to: > How now the smart flies take the new time beyond new time where new times come. ..Nice idea, but it may need some more thought. (Even more so as 2001:db8::1 is much easier to remember than that!) (I wrote that parenthetical from memory on edit, vs. had to copy-paste the sentence when it was my intention to comment on it within seconds.)

ssl-3

I tried it. Maybe it's easier to speak than hexadecimal is. But I'm not sure that "How morally the enviable assistances categorize the insistent iodine beyond new time where new systems stalk" has the same memorable quality as "correct horse battery staple" does.

1970-01-01

If you're remembering your IPv6 address you're doing IPv6 wrong. In fact, it's good practice to always use a temporary IPv6 address. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8981#name-problem-s...

re

Not too sure of the utility of this. It's not an easy sentence to remember, because while grammatical, it's nonsense—it would take some effort. So if I'm trying to memorize a static IP, setting up a DNS name is likely to be easier. And also if I'm going to be using this to memorize IPs I'd like the algorithm to be open source. All that being said, I think it's a neat idea and a cool tool!

RedShift1

I don't understand how the mapping works. An address has 8 parts and produces 16 words, so each part consists of 2 words. If we take the example 2a02, that gets encoded to "how atop", but I don't see how that text helps me that "how atop" means 2a02? Am I suppose to memorize both? How does that help?

Waterluvian

Something that I think was probably once obvious to me but I rediscovered recently is just how intensely wired for song the brain is. If you want to memorize anything, doing it as a song makes it far easier. I’d really love to see things like this generate little jingles along with the sentence. :)

vel0city

So just imagine if there was a service that could translate any words you wanted into the IP address instead of relying on some website to generate jibberish. Wouldn't that be cool to use instead? Some kind of name system? Based around domains of authority?

emilfihlman

Just proves that 16 bytes was too much, and we should have just gone 8 bytes.

al_borland

What is the use-case for this? I’m trying to think of an IPv6 address I would need to remember, and then when I’d have access to this site without having access to a text file where I could have noted the address down. I’m coming up empty.

Gathering6678

It reminds me of what3words, using three words to describe any location on earth. I really hoped that could catch on.

buttocks

The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new year. Or more concisely, localhost.

apitman

Being essentially impossible to memorize is one of the worst attributes of IPv6. I memorize and manually type IPv4 addresses all the time and it's super useful.

paulsutter

ipv6 is for faceless hordes of cellphones, which could just as easily be NAT despite being an ipv6 skeptic, i’ve been thinking to try using ipv6 for our new company network, but make the addresses purely readable

Uptrenda

We kind of had the same idea for ECDSA public keys (an imagined solution to zokos triangle -- human readable and decentralized) as well as private keys (BIP39 brain wallets). Honestly it still falls short of truly name-based though.

blurrybird

Mine comes with a swear! […] thaw the new case beyond pure mass where flagrant toys fucken.

amstan

Ah yes, because "How now the smart flies take the new time beyond new time where new times come." is so much easier to remember than "2001:db8::1".

dpc_01234

This encoding is so long, that I'm more likely to remember the raw address. :D And I don't think I ever typed manually any IPv6 address other than `::1`.

_air

"The amazing champions inspire boldly like brilliant genius and incredible legends admire splendid talent." Hard to forget a sentence like that!