• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    QR could be helpful if you need to transfer a private, public or preahared encryption key. Relying on an OCR photo is going to make a mess because OCR relies on context to assist in character recognition. 1 character wrong in a huge random string will break it.

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      8 hours ago

      I guess the issue isn’t as important if I am generating the code and I trust the code generation utility