Proquint is an encoding scheme to transform 16-bit sequences into readable, spellable and pronouncable identifier.
The original proposal can be found here: https://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016
$ python3 proquint.py encode 7f000001
lusab-babad
$ echo -n "\x7f\x00\x00\x01" | python3 proquint.py encode -
lusab-babad
$ python3 proquint.py decode lusab-babad | xxd -p
7f000001
$ echo -n "lusab-babad" | python3 proquint.py decode - | xxd -p
7f000001>>> from proquint import Proquint
>>> Proquint.encode(bytes.fromhex("7f000001"))
'lusab-babad'
>>> Proquint.decode("lusab-babad")
b'\x7f\x00\x00\x01'
>>> Proquint.encode_uint16(0x7f00)
'lusab'
>>> Proquint.decode_uint16("babad")
1
It is also possible to use another encoding scheme or other alphabets, using the following interface:
>>> Proquint.ALPHABET
{'C': ('bdfghjklmnprstvz', 4), 'V': ('aiou', 2)}
>>> Proquint.CONSTRUCTION
'CVCVC'
The keys of Proquint.ALPHABET are those used in Proquint.CONSTRUCTION, and the values are tuples containing the alphabet and the length of bits that are encoded using a symbol of the alphabets.
It's possible to use pip to install this library. Example to install proquint inside a python virtual environment:
$ python3 -m venv /tmp/venv
$ source /tmp/venv/bin/activate
$ pip install .
Processing /code/proquint
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Installing collected packages: Proquint
Running setup.py install for Proquint ... done
Successfully installed Proquint-1.0