BSD Portssecurity/paperkey 1.6 OpenBSD
OpenPGP private key backup utility suitable for printing
- System
- OpenBSD
- Repository
- OpenBSD ports
- Maintainer
- The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
- Categories
- security
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.
In the other systems
| System | Port | Version |
|---|---|---|
| OpenBSD | security/paperkey | 1.6 |
| FreeBSD | security/paperkey | 1.6_1 |
| NetBSD | security/paperkey | 1.6 |
| DragonFly | security/paperkey | 1.6_1 |
Install
Binary package:
pkg_add paperkeyFrom the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/security/paperkey && make installDependencies
No port depends on this one.