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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Mon, 27 April 2015 16:26 UTC

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On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:03, Daniel.Ranft@giepa.de said:

> You could use a QR code for at least the business cards? We discussed something like that on the OpenPGP summit a couple of days ago.

During one session it was remarked that one of the larger participating
projects got research results on QR codes indicating that QR codes don't
work reliable for mass deployment.  Thus for backing up and syncing
private keys they use a letters and digits based code to seed a PRNG.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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