Announcing paperbackup.py to backup keys as QR codes on paper

Gerd v. Egidy gerd.von.egidy at intra2net.com
Tue Feb 21 15:34:17 CET 2017


Hi,

I'd like to announce a program I wrote to backup GnuPG and SSH keys as 
qrcodes on paper:

paperbackup.py 
https://github.com/intra2net/paperbackup

This is designed as fallback if all your regular backups failed to restore or 
were lost.

Usage is like this:

gpg2 --armor --export "User Name" >key.asc
gpg2 --armor --export-secret-key "User Name" >>key.asc
paperbackup.py key.asc
paperrestore.sh key.asc.pdf | diff key.asc -
lpr key.asc.pdf

You'll find all the details, reasoning and examples in the README.

Kind regards,

Gerd




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