Quote from: alp on November 29, 2013, 02:56:22 PM

Quote from: wumpus on November 29, 2013, 07:32:39 AM

Quote from: alp on November 28, 2013, 11:05:10 PM

What is the point of a QR code rather than an encrypted private key? Less likely for someone to memorize a QR code than a long private key?

The QR code IS the private key, just encoded in a visual format easy to parse by machines.
It's also an option to put the 64 hex digits into a slab of metal, but to use it you'd have to type them or use (less reliable) OCR.

I figured it was the key or an encrypted version of the key, but it seemed like typing them in would be less error prone than a camera trying to read the dots on steel. Maybe I'm wrong that it's entirely readable with a camera now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Error_correction