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cyphar / paperback

Paper backup generator suitable for long-term storage.
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How to handle multi-page documents #6

Open cyphar opened 2 years ago

cyphar commented 2 years ago

At the moment paperback has an artificial limit of 9 QR codes as part of the main document. The reason for this is that once you go above 9 QR codes, it will be necessary to create additional pages which may result in cases where someone has lost one of the pages and the data is basically irrecoverable. We can't really make the QR codes dynamically smaller because that'll affect the ability of QR readers to be able to reliably read the encoded data.

cyphar commented 2 years ago

Other key question is whether we should have an extra page for redundancy (using solomon-reed) so that if one page is lost you're not completely screwed.