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title: "QR Trust PoC: Reference Verifier and Scanner UX for QR Trust Decisions"
type: software
authors:
- family-names: "El-Masri"
given-names: "Hassan"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6704-8605"
abstract: "A public-safe reference implementation and teaching companion for QR trust decisions, including verifier flows, scanner-visible decision states, browser evidence, native iPhone scanner experiments, and draft QR trust-network contracts."
license: "Apache-2.0"
url: "https://github.com/unixtime/qr-trust-poc"
repository-code: "https://github.com/unixtime/qr-trust-poc"
date-released: 2026-08-02
keywords:
- "QR code security"
- "trust model"
- "scanner UX"
- "destination binding"
- "runtime safety"
- "verifier cache"
preferred-citation:
type: article
title: "QR Navigation Security Is Not Primarily a Cryptography Problem: A Trust-Model Framework for Managed Issuer Verification, Destination Binding, and Runtime Safety"
authors:
- family-names: "El-Masri"
given-names: "Hassan"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6704-8605"
year: 2026
date-published: 2026-05-01
status: preprint
doi: "10.2139/ssrn.6577478"
url: "https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6577478"