[Cryptography] distributing fingerprints etc. via QR codes etc.

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 22:05:38 EDT 2014


On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John Denker <jsd at av8n.com> wrote:

> Let's talk about that.  Yes, it is possible to put contact
> information and PGP information in QR codes on a business
> card ... just not in the /same/ QR code AFAICT.  It ends up
> being slightly non-obvious and slightly inelegant, but it
> is doable.


The main use case I'd like to see is sharing fingerprints (or keys)
phone-to-phone. I recently went to a "keysigning party" (not expecting
much) and left with a ton of paperwork to do, and I hate paperwork.

I really wish I could just snag people's key (fingerprints) in QR code form.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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