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Re:Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper by s0ss on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:24AM (#44268817)
Machine-readable expedited/convenient recovery as opposed to manual transcription.

Data entry sucks.

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Re:Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper by vorgol on Friday June 13, 2025 @11:04AM (#44269191)
> Data entry sucks

These are the kindest words I've heard about data entry.

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Re:Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper by 7bit on Sunday June 15, 2025 @05:21AM (#44281387)
How often do you have to recover a key? I think I did it maybe 3 times in the past 5 years.

I get your point, but a recovery/backup key? Yeah, I really rather have that human-readable, even if it means that I'll likely need a good 30 seconds to type that into wherever I have to type that in.

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