QR Code and its Security Issues

Authors

  • Shah D Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Nirma University ,India
  • Shah Y Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Nirma University ,India

Keywords:

QR code, Error Correction, Reed Solomon, Malicious Code, Alteration, Phishing

Abstract

With the wireless media becoming the most accessible commodity of the time to the people, barcodes are used as the message carriers with significant information transferred through at both ends. This paper aims to provide details about the most commonly 2D barcode, QR code in respect to its structure, symbology. Also it gives overview of different schemes that the attacker can use to deceive the people by directing them to malicious websites almost similar in domain name to the source.

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Published

2014-12-06

How to Cite

[1]
D. Shah and Y. Shah, “QR Code and its Security Issues”, Int. J. Comp. Sci. Eng., vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 22–26, Dec. 2014.

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 11 (2014): IJCSE November Edition

Section

Survey Article

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