Stuart Longland wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:54:56 +0000
Стефан Васильев via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote:
> If QR is an option, why not encode the entire message in QR?
I thought about that too, but in case the document would be several
pages long and would not fit into a QR-code. Ok, one can split the
large document and insert then several QR-codes into one Fax page.
I've experimented with using QR codes with OpenPGP on-and-off… mostly
as a mechanism for sharing the public keys: the idea being that you
could have business cards printed up with the back side containing a QR
code of your public key (not a fingerprint, the actual key).
In my experience, it is very hard to get the big and complex QR codes
to scan reliably. Some of the QR codes used for COVID-19 contact
tracing and vaccination status _really_ push the limits -- with those
largish codes often failing to scan.
ECC keys could be made small enough to have a snowflake's chance in
hell of working. 4096-bit RSA was a no-go.
Thanks for sharing your experience, much appreciated!
There are schemes for encoding an image for printing onto a piece of
paper and later scanning it back in to recover the original data. QR
code is obviously a more recent option, but was not the first. These
may be worth pursuing.
Would you like to explain a bit such schemes? I am aware, for example,
that GnuPG on a mini offline laptop can beat *all* smartphone crypto
messenger, when it comes to endpoint security, when used with a dumb
phone with a USB port and while sending GnuPG MMS messages. All
users need for that is a software from GitHub, which can convert GnuPG
messages to .png images and back. Simply search there for 'imgify'.
Regards
Stefan
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