memorable-numbers | converting numbers into easily-memorized word lists

memorable-numbers is a Java library typically used in Financial Services, Banks, Payments applications. memorable-numbers has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. However memorable-numbers build file is not available. You can download it from GitHub.

first, credit where credit is due: this little project was sparked by this xkcd comic on password security (the comic is about the amount of entropy contained in a passphrase of a few short, common, memorable words. in the comic, the idea is to use these words in place of a shorter, but more complicated and less memorable password. it occurred to me, though, that i manage lots of long numbers, and that's hard to do. at work, there are bug id numbers, changelist numbers, user id numbers, etc. these are all just long enough that they're not only not memorizable, they don't even stick in short-term memory well enough to glance at one, switch to a different tab or window, and retype it. so i copy and paste a lot, which is fine, but sometimes the numbers are (helpfully!) hyperlinks, which makes selecting them for copying without clicking on them hard. in the rest of my life, there are lots of phone numbers. in practice i keep them all in my phone so i never have to know what they are, but if i don't have my phone, i'm sunk, outside of a very small set of numbers that i keep