• VFACE updates rCo what's new !

    From Gabx@victor@m2usenet.invalid to alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.privacy,alt.cypherpunks on Sun Mar 22 16:02:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

    Some improvements landed on identicons.virebent.art this week based on community feedback.
    The tool now accepts public keys in any format.

    You can paste PEM blocks with headers, SSH keys with prefixes, yubicrypt hex strings, or plain base64, everything gets normalized automatically.

    If your key was cleaned up during the process, you'll see a notice telling you exactly what happened and what the canonical version looks like.

    This matters because the identity hash is calculated from the cleaned key, so everyone needs to use the same representation when verifying.

    The Analyze tab lets you upload any identicon PNG and check if it's a valid Ch1ffr3punk identicon.

    It verifies the 5x5 grid symmetry, matches colors against the known palettes, and gives you a score.

    You can also optionally enter identity details to check whether a specific identicon actually belongs to a specific person, the tool regenerates the expected identicon and compares them side by side.

    The identity page you can download now includes a ready-to-use VFACE Headers block for Usenet and email, with the Face header already folded at 72 characters per RFC 2822.

    The concatenation string for verification is in a selectable field so you can actually copy the whole thing even when the public key is long.

    VFACE headers dropped the X- prefix following RFC 6648.
    They are now Ed25519-Pub, Ed25519-Sig, Identity-Hash, and the standard Face header from RFC 4021.

    The key mode selector was redesigned to make it clear it's a choice between generating a new key or pasting an existing one, not a button you click to generate.

    *YubiKey* is explicitly recommended.

    As always, no accounts, no tracking, no external dependencies, no CDN.
    Just PHP calling the Go binary. ;)

    https://identicons.virebent.art

    Gabx

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