FrankenTerm plans air-gapped transfer of Mac settings and SSH keys via animated QR video
doodlestein · x · 2026-10-20
- The author plans to turn terminal tool FrankenTerm into a native iPhone/iPad app, with a designed air-gapped QR workspace transfer scheme.
- Core idea: export a Mac FrankenTerm workspace's resolved settings and selected exportable SSH private keys as an encrypted animated QR video stream, restored via the native iOS camera — no network connection between devices and no network service anywhere in the path.
- The plain .ftworkspace JSON stays private-key-free; keys travel in a separately versioned encrypted FTAG envelope. A 55KB design doc (535 lines) is public on GitHub; the author notes it's a plan, not a shipped feature.
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