paperkey
extract just the secret information out of OpenPGP secret keys
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paperkey
About paperkey
From Debian's package description
A reasonable way to achieve a long term backup of OpenPGP (GnuPG, PGP, etc) keys is to print them out on paper. The reasoning behind this is that paper and ink has amazingly long retention qualities - far longer than the magnetic or optical means that are generally used to back up computer data.
Due to metadata and redundancy, OpenPGP secret keys are significantly larger than just the "secret bits". In fact, the secret key contains a complete copy of the public key. Since the public key generally doesn't need to be escrowed (most people have many copies of it on various keyservers, web pages, etc), only extracting 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 or via OCR) and paperkey can use them to transform your existing public key into a secret key.
From Debian's description of the paperkey package, under that package's license.
Dependencies
Depends on
libc6
Recommends
gnupg
Related apps
- sqvOpenPGP signature verification program from SequoiaCommand line
- sqOpenPGP command-line tool from SequoiaCommand line
- sliceExtract out pre-defined slices of an ASCII fileCommand line
KeysignOpenPGP Keysigning helper- ScreenkeyScreencast your keys
- figletMake large character ASCII banners out of ordinary textCommand line
Sources and licenses
- Name: the Debian package name.
- Summary: Debian's short description of the paperkey package, under that package's license.
- Description: Debian's description of the paperkey package, under that package's license.
- Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
- Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.
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