What is a good phonetic alphabet for a password app?
I am writing an application that will generate "difficult" passwords for a user. The user will see the password only once, and he will copy it to the client, who will remember it for them forever.
Works great on a fully functional PC where I can select the entire password while it is displayed in the browser and then paste it into the client that will use it.
It works less efficiently when I create a password on my PC and then manually transfer it to my mobile device. So for this case, I would like to display the password in some clearly formulated form to help the user keep it in mind while copying.
For example: At6Pq = A lpha t ango six P apa q uebec
What is a good phonetic alphabet that I can translate letter components into? Ideally, I would like something that makes sense for both English speakers (a small majority of users) and English speakers?
The generated passwords will look like [a-zA-Z0-9] {20}
I'm currently reviewing the NATO alphabet , but some of the entries like "papa" and "india" just don't ring for me for some reason.
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Have you seen this Wikipedia page that gives an overview of hiding common spelling alphabets used by various organizations / countries? The British Troop / NYPD policies look pretty straightforward (all very common words that are probably familiar to most native speakers), so you can go with one of them. All in all, I wouldn't worry too much about how they sound - any regular spelling alphabet will do. If you want to create your own (or a hybrid of existing ones), this probably shouldn't be a big problem, although I don't see any particular reason not to choose one of the ones listed on this page.
Hope it helps.
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