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paperkey-1.6 – OpenPGP private key backup utility suitable for printing (cvsweb github mirror)

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.
WWW: https://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/

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