[pass] [PATCH] Add support for displaying QR codes.

[Santiago Borrazás]

Maybe this is not the best place to discuss this, but is it possible
to put your private key into a qr code? This could make pass tool
friendly across devices.

I was thinking to put all my encrypted
passwords in a public github repo and be able to access to my
passwords from any device passing my private key from a qr code and then putting
my password to decrypt the private key.

I would like to hear from security people if this it's viable or is
the worst idea ever.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:12 AM, George Angelopoulos
<george at usermod.net> wrote:
> Adding to what Jonas suggested, instead of piping the password to
> qrencode, you could pipe it to a small script that would do
>
> qrencode -o - | display -
>
> Alternatively, have a separate program/script assigned to a key
> combination that displays a qr code of your current clipboard, like this:
>
> xclip -o -selection clipboard | qrencode -o - | display -
>
> Maybe the above is useful in general, because any information on your
> monitors is 1 or 2 buttons away from a qrcode, and pass doesn't need to
> know about it.
>
> On 06/20/2014 04:52 PM, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote:
>> I have no idea how common a use-case this might be, but I found it the
>> most convenient way to interface with my phone while lacking an
>> Android app. I don't see it as a mandatory dependency, any more than
>> xclip is required to use pass if you don't want to send things to the
>> clipboard.
>>
>> I won't be disappointed if this is not accepted however, as I
>> understand it's a little out there; I'll continue to maintain it
>> locally in that case.
>>
>> Regards,
>> ~Celti
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Jonas Wagner <j.b.w at gmx.ch> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is this really that common a use case? Supporting this will add a dependency
>>> on qrencode to pass.
>>>
>>> In what way is this better than doing "pass foo/bar | qrencode"?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jonas
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