On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Brian Smith wrote: > Peter Palfrader wrote: > > Nice idea. When trying to find decent backup methods for my > > new Tor identity key I cam accross this thread. > > > > I played all day with ocr and friends. In the course I wrote > > a small script that does what you suggest. I tried to keep > > it small enough to print it along with whatever data you have > > - I clearly failed there. > > But other than that it works nicely. > > > > That didn't work out so well at first > > - gocr had real trouble distinguishing zeroes and the > > letter D like Delta. > > Why not use a 2D barcode like a QR code? A QR code will hold most > typical keys, is easy for machines to read, is small, and has redundancy > features that allow it to work even if you hole-punch or black out part > of the code.
Because I like to have a fallback to entering the data manually. Who knows how easy it will be to get barcode software for a specific version of barcodes 10 years in the future. And will it even compile? -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users