Daniel, I gave paperkey a try the other day and quickly learned, because I'm no techy (and no desire to be one), it was too difficult to figure out.
Maybe I'll give it another try? Thanks, Craig -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 2/3/17, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: Subject: Re: Paper backup of all keys To: "MyCraigs List" <mycrai...@ymail.com>, gnupg-users@gnupg.org Date: Friday, February 3, 2017, 10:21 PM On Fri 2017-02-03 18:28:03 -0500, MyCraigs List wrote: > Also, let's say the key associated with the email address (not a paper > backup) gets corrupted or I delete it or render the key unuseable- can > the paper backup of the key be used to type the key back in? Sure, but it would likely be a pain to type the whole thing in. You might be interested in the "paperkey" tool, written by David Shaw, which does a good job at minimizing the typing you'll need to do (assuming that all of the public parts of the certificate itself can be recovered from the keyservers or your correspondents). If you use debian or a debian derivative, just use "apt install paperkey", but otherwise there's: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ Regards, --dkg _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
