Giving out passwords over the phone using the phonetic alphabet
In my job I’m often required to generate passwords for clients. One of the common ways of supplying it to them is over the phone because it’s quick and (mostly) secure.
But it can be painful at times. People can easily mishear the spelling, which is why we turn to the ICAO spelling alphabet (or “NATO phonetic alphabet”). The problem is that I’m not enough of a radio guru to have memorised the entire alphabet yet. So I wrote this handy tool to help me:
Phonetic alphabet helper
https://dans.im/phonetic-phrase-gen.php
Simply input the word and it prints the phrase to read out over the phone, using the phonetic spelling alphabet:
After a few more password reset requests, I’m hoping I’ll be able to memorise all those words and make the radio veterans proud.
Enjoy!
