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 at: >> http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ > > Curious piece of software. Certainly not something that comes to mind > right away for making backups. > > I wonder if you could back-up even more by using 2D bar code for an > output?
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 address. You need a 'thing' (a process, a device, etc) to read them, and part of the point of paperkey is that it's supposed to be the backup of last resort, and thus readable by a human without any special hardware involved. You could also back up your whole key via a 2D bar code (without using paperkey at all) but then you're backing up a lot of redundant data, giving you a larger image. Of course, this may not be a big deal if the intent is to scan it back in again rather than type it back in again. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
