# The security/paperkey port

## paperkey-1.6 – OpenPGP private key backup utility suitable for printing

## 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/

Categories:
  security

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