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paperkey-1.6

OpenPGP private key backup utility suitable for printing

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Description

Due to metadata and redundancy, OpenPGP secret keys are significantly larger than just the "secret bits". The secret key contains a complete copy of the public key. Since the public key generally doesn't need to be escrowed, only archiving the secret parts can be a real advantage. Paperkey extracts just those secret bytes and prints them. To reconstruct, you re-enter those bytes (whether by hand, OCR, QR code, or the like) and paperkey can use them to transform your existing public key into a secret key.

Package information

Ports path
security/paperkey
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
security
Available flavors
None listed

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