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I've been working, on and off, on a little side project to solve this exact issue. It's just a python script that converts a piece of text of arbitrary length,
by saganus 9y ago
I've been working, on and off, on a little side project to solve this exact issue.
It's just a python script that converts a piece of text of arbitrary length, into a series of QR codes.
I then plan to work on the "decoder" side, which takes a series of QR codes and outputs the original text. Basically just a concat of the QRs.
The idea is that I'll print my private keys in both text and QRs so that I can easily recover the digital form if needed (and if that doesn't work, then I'll type it... Ugh).
Hopefully I'll be able to finish it and do a Show HN sometime this year.. (or maybe the next).
- philsnow 9y agoHave a look at https://github.com/yishilin14/asc-key-to-qr-code-gif https://github.com/yishilin14/asc-key-to-qr-code-gif (linked from https://github.com/mssun/passforios/wiki#importing-ascii-armor-encrypted-key https://github.com/mssun/passforios/wiki#importing-ascii-arm... ), it does roughly what you're talking about doing.
- saganus 9y agoThat looks indeed very similar. We just need the decoder then! :) So I'm guessing there's definitely some need for a tool like this, right? I mean, being able to "QR-codify" any text and later getting it back could simplify some of these offline-storage actions, right?
- matheusd 9y agoI made one of this some time ago (encoder and decoder). HTTPS://github.com/matheusd/pypaperbak