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by robinhoodexe 4343 days ago
Having a physical card[1] with challenge & response codes for when using my bank and all pulic services in Denmark. I actually thought about making a simple CLI program that can OCR the card using tesseract[2], convert the output to a simple sqlite database and use GnuPG[3] to encrypt the database. The user feeds the application (probably just a simple bash script) the given challenge code, decrypts the database and is given the response code (probably just copied to the clipboard).

[1]http://i.imgur.com/2XGei96.jpg [2]https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ [3]https://www.gnupg.org/

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Maybe start somewhere a little more basic.

I've got C+R "cards" for my google acct and treasurydirect. And thats it.

A little more might be nice.

Yeah I'm probably just overthinking this, although it could be a nice small project.