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I do something silly like that. I take the qr codes and convert them into Unicode glyphs and then put them in a gpg encrypted file. I started doing this after m
by __david__ 7y ago
I do something silly like that. I take the qr codes and convert them into Unicode glyphs and then put them in a gpg encrypted file. I started doing this after my first phone upgrade lost all my google auth entries. Now I can just decrypt in the terminal and directly scan all the codes into google auth should I ever lose them.
- franga2000 7y agoDo you mean you use something like grencode to literally draw the QR code using Unicode box characters or do you just decode and save their contents? As an extra suggestion: if you use an Android phone for OTP, [andOTP](https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP) supports exporting directly into a PGP-encrypted JSON file which can then be either imported back into the app or converted back to QR codes with a script. Since it allows you to trigger the export using a Broadcast Intent, I have it set up to do that as a part of my weekly backup Tasker script (of course, you could also just use any other sync solution and manually export when you add a new code).
- __david__ 7y agoYeah, literal QR codes made out of unicode box characters. That way it's just scanning a bunch of codes instead of trying to recreate them just to scan them.