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Reverse Engineering the Verification QR Code on My Diploma

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Re: Reverse Engineering the Verification QR Code on My Diploma

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i think the fact that they put a digital signature of any kind on the paper transcript is pretty cool. would be kinda neat if there were a combined standard where there were a deterministic scheme for ocr'ing the text (specifically its ordering) as well as an accompanying signature so that the signature actually signed the text that appears on the document.

There are a few applications that do that - but it is a patent minefield, courtesy of the biggest patent troll in history:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/12/14/the-pat...

Re: Reverse Engineering the Verification QR Code on My Diploma

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What's described here is called "signature with (total) message recovery" as opposed to the more common "signature with appendix". This is a legitimate technique used when the message payloads are small and can be worked on directly by the cryptographic signature operation rather than being hashed and the signed-hash being appended. In this case, PKCS #1 v1.5 is used for an RSA signature. The choice of PKCS #1 v1.5 i…

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