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

[Santiago Borrazás]

The qr code will be a wallet. It has the same changes of being
photograph than your credit card and driver license. And that private
key it's also encrypted with a password.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Anne Jan Brouwer <the_jinx at etv.cx> wrote:
> Not realy a security specialist.
> But having your private key in an easy to photograph format doesn't sound
> that smart to me . .
>
> Anne Jan
>
> On 20 June 2014 21:52:31 CEST, "Santiago Borrazás" <sanbor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 con
>>>>  tinue
>>>> 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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