Due to Reasons, I needed to get a pgp public key off a computer that I could neither upload it off of nor did I have access to a USB port.
I thought I’d try taking a photo of the key and OCR’ing it.
An hour later, I would like to inform you that above and beyond the issues you expect, iOS OCR will happily roll dice on whether it feels that any given “o”, “x” or “c” shall be encoded as ASCII or Cyrillic.
abadidea /
npub12k…g9sc4
2025-04-24 10:59:51
Author Public Key
npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4Seen on
wss://relay.mostr.pubPublished at
2025-04-24 10:59:51Event JSON
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"content": "Due to Reasons, I needed to get a pgp public key off a computer that I could neither upload it off of nor did I have access to a USB port.\n\nI thought I’d try taking a photo of the key and OCR’ing it.\n\nAn hour later, I would like to inform you that above and beyond the issues you expect, iOS OCR will happily roll dice on whether it feels that any given “o”, “x” or “c” shall be encoded as ASCII or Cyrillic.",
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}