Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-13 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 7, 2013, at 11:05 AM, David Smith dave.sm...@st.com wrote: On 01/04/13 17:31, David Shaw wrote: Sure, paperkey supports piping the output into whatever code generator you like: gpg --export-secret-key mykey | paperkey --output-format raw | your-bar-code-generator However, 2D

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-08 Thread John Clizbe
I.V. Frost wrote: Am I the only having trouble both the key for this message and the one with the binaries? My installation tells me it is not Key ID: 0x99242560 but key 0xA1BC4FA4 which is not found on any server that I use. Something sounds odd about the search criteria or keyserver

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 05:54:15PM +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 07/01/13 16:39, Mark H. Wood wrote: I'd suggest assuming some periodic read-only use, since we *should* be testing our backups regularly to discover decay *before* it makes something irretrievable. I would assume the decay

Paperkey 1.3 // very durable but often overlooked backup medium

2013-01-08 Thread vedaal
Back in the shrouded mists of time, in the last millenium, before digital media were widely accessible, many libraries and archives used to back up data on microfiche. Many of them had built in printers, so that 'text' data could be retrieved, printed out, (and then, as the technology became

Re: Paperkey 1.3 // very durable but often overlooked backup medium

2013-01-08 Thread Avi
These sites may prove interesting: http://www.familyarchives.com/pages/documents-how-to-preserve-your-documents.html http://www.archives.gov/preservation/holdings-maintenance/index.html http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/preserv/presvphotocop This book, perhaps:

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:30:43PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: On Jan 4, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Johan Wevers joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl wrote: On 04-01-2013 5:42, David Shaw wrote: Paperkey 1.3 is released. You might want to update the website, it reads a bit outdated. CD/DVD-ROMs are going

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-07 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 07/01/13 16:39, Mark H. Wood wrote: I'd suggest assuming some periodic read-only use, since we *should* be testing our backups regularly to discover decay *before* it makes something irretrievable. I would assume the decay to make it irretrievable the moment you discover it. Hoping the bit

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-07 Thread David Smith
On 01/04/13 17:31, David Shaw wrote: Sure, paperkey supports piping the output into whatever code generator you like: gpg --export-secret-key mykey | paperkey --output-format raw | your-bar-code-generator However, 2D bar codes have some of the problems that paperkey is intended to

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-07 Thread Josef Schneider
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Peter Lebbing pe...@digitalbrains.com wrote: Flash memory stores its data as an electrical charge, which can leak away. It does so very slowly, but it still does[1]. We are talking about years. And reading a cell does not refresh it, so read-only use will in

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-05 Thread Johan Wevers
On 04-01-2013 20:30, David Shaw wrote: That's a very good point. Do you know of any studies on the projected life of flash when used as backup? That depends strongly on the type of flash. NOR-flash, which is not used any more in new devices gave problems after not many rewrites. NAND flash

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread Branko Majic
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 23:42:07 -0500 David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: Paperkey 1.3 is released. This adds ECC key support (both ECDH and ECDSA) as well as a few more minor tweaks. Source and Win32 binaries are available at: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ Curious piece

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread Johan Wevers
On 04-01-2013 5:42, David Shaw wrote: Paperkey 1.3 is released. You might want to update the website, it reads a bit outdated. CD/DVD-ROMs are going the way of the floppy disc; flash memory is much more reliable than either. Future support of USB ports or memory card readers seems the biggest

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:27, joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl said: CD/DVD-ROMs are going the way of the floppy disc; flash memory is much more reliable than either. Future support of USB ports or memory card FWIW: Some time ago I copied a bunch of ~25 years old 5.25 floppies to a disk. I had only

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Harning Jr.
-0500 David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: Paperkey 1.3 is released. This adds ECC key support (both ECDH and ECDSA) as well as a few more minor tweaks. Source and Win32 binaries are available at: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ Curious piece of software. Certainly

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 4, 2013, at 4:01 AM, Branko Majic bra...@majic.rs wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 23:42:07 -0500 David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: Paperkey 1.3 is released. This adds ECC key support (both ECDH and ECDSA) as well as a few more minor tweaks. Source and Win32 binaries are available

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread Klaus Neumann
On 01/04/2013 06:27 AM, Johan Wevers wrote: On 04-01-2013 5:42, David Shaw wrote: Paperkey 1.3 is released. You might want to update the website, it reads a bit outdated. CD/DVD-ROMs are going the way of the floppy disc; flash memory is much more reliable than either. Future support

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 4, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Johan Wevers joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl wrote: On 04-01-2013 5:42, David Shaw wrote: Paperkey 1.3 is released. You might want to update the website, it reads a bit outdated. CD/DVD-ROMs are going the way of the floppy disc; flash memory is much more reliable than

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread I.V. Frost
observation on 1/3/2013 10:42 PM: Hi folks, Paperkey 1.3 is released. This adds ECC key support (both ECDH and ECDSA) as well as a few more minor tweaks. Source and Win32 binaries are available at: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: what

Re: Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-04 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 4, 2013, at 12:16 PM, I.V. Frost ivfrost2-m...@yahoo.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am I the only having trouble both the key for this message and the one with the binaries? My installation tells me it is not Key ID: 0x99242560 but key 0xA1BC4FA4

Paperkey 1.3

2013-01-03 Thread David Shaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Paperkey 1.3 is released. This adds ECC key support (both ECDH and ECDSA) as well as a few more minor tweaks. Source and Win32 binaries are available at: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ Enjoy! David -BEGIN PGP