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Why not print the key?

• pdkl95 11y ago
  This may actually be a very good idea for some cases. If the stuff being protected by the key is, for example, the type of data that someone would otherwise keep in a personal fire-safe, then simply printing out the keys and keeping them in that fire-safe wouldn't change the type of security being provided. It might be nice if we had some type of highly-reliable (like the redundancy in QR codes[1]), so the process of printing out a key and re-scanning it was easy and trustworthy. [1] http://datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html http://datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html
  • nevdka 11y ago
    You could just use a QR code. There's no real reason they need to be URLs.
    • Filligree 11y ago
      I've tried this. Turns out that very few QR-code readers are able to cope with QR-codes large enough to hold a decently sized RSA key.