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SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES RELATED TO QUICK RESPONSE CODES

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Advances in Digital Forensics XVII (DigitalForensics 2021)

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Quick response codes are widely used for tagging products, sharing information and making digital payments due to their robustness against distortion, error correction features and small size. As the adoption and popularity of quick response codes have grown, so have the associated security and privacy concerns. This chapter discusses advancements in quick response codes and the major security and privacy issues related to quick response codes.

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwar, India

    Pulkit Garg

  2. Computer Science and Engineering at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi, India

    Saheb Chhabra & Garima Gupta

  3. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, New Delhi, India

    Gaurav Gupta

  4. National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India

    Monika Gupta

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Garg, P., Chhabra, S., Gupta, G., Gupta, G., Gupta, M. (2021). SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES RELATED TO QUICK RESPONSE CODES. In: Peterson, G., Shenoi, S. (eds) Advances in Digital Forensics XVII. DigitalForensics 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 612. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88381-2_13

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