Announcing paperbackup.py to backup keys as QR codes on paper
Gerd v. Egidy
gerd.von.egidy at intra2net.com
Thu Feb 23 11:06:47 CET 2017
> I'm a little
> surprised that your code is as large as it is, too: using an alternate
> pipeline you might be able to significantly reduce code size.
>
> (a) use Python 3's gpg module to export the secret key
> (b) paperkey --output-type raw --secret-key key.gpg --output key.raw
I want paperbackup.py to be independent and agnostic of gnupg. It should also
be usable for e.g. ssh keys or ciphertext.
> (c) use Python 3's QR library to create a series of PNGs
> (d) use Wand or PythonMagick to convert the PNGs to PDF
> (e) save the PDF and you're done
I had some problems creating proper multipage pdfs, so I used PyX.
If you can come up with shorter sourcecode or less dependencies, I'm happy to
take patches.
Kind regards,
Gerd
More information about the Gnupg-users
mailing list