Thursday, April 27, 2023

Re: [new] security/paperkey

On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 09:10:46AM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:
> Still ok op@ to import.

Last ping, last hope...

Information for inst:paperkey-1.6

Comment:
OpenPGP private key backup utility suitable for printing

Description:
Due to metadata and redundancy, OpenPGP secret keys are significantly larger
than just the "secret bits". The secret key contains a complete copy of the
public key. Since the public key generally doesn't need to be escrowed, only
archiving the secret parts can be a real advantage.

Paperkey extracts just those secret bytes and prints them. To reconstruct, you
re-enter those bytes (whether by hand, OCR, QR code, or the like) and paperkey
can use them to transform your existing public key into a secret key.

Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>

WWW: https://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/

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