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Re: [openpgp] Fingerprints

Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> Mon, 27 April 2015 16:27 UTC

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On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 18:03 +0200, Daniel Ranft wrote: 
> 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.
> The related documentation drafts can be found here: https://github.com/ModernPGP/QR
I personally don't like that very much:
Typically one will use his smartphone for scanning this, so one entrusts
an pretty insecure system (mostly running some proprietary closed code)
with telling you the true value of the FP.

Cheers,
Chris.

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