Secure QR code

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A Secure QR code is an extension of a QR code.[1] When a QR code is read and decoded, all the information in the code is freely accessible. There will be some redundancy, to allow for error correction. A Secure qr code allows to encrypt part or all of the information present. This means that extra information is needed, to decrypt the non-public part of the code. To decode the non-public part of the code, the device doing the decoding needs to store a key. Secure QR codes use symmetric cryptography. The key length is 8 bytes. This means that there are 264 possible values for the key. With the correct key, the device reading the Secure QR code will also decrypt it.

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  1. Goel, Nishant; Sharma, Ajay; Goswami, Sudhir (May 2017). "A way to secure a QR code: SQR". 2017 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA): 494–497. doi:10.1109/CCAA.2017.8229850. ISBN 978-1-5090-6471-7. S2CID 223083.