Paperkey 0.7 - A program to archive OpenPGP keys on paper.

Paperkey 0.7  
  by David Shaw (http://freshmeat.net/~davidshaw/)
  Wed, Oct 3rd 2007 10:57 

About:
A reasonable way to achieve a long term backup of OpenPGP (GnuPG, PGP, etc)
keys is to print them out on paper. Due to metadata and redundancy, OpenPGP
secret keys are significantly larger than just the "secret bits". In fact,
the secret key contains a complete copy of the public key. Since the
public key generally doesn't need to be backed up in this way (most people
have many copies of it on various keyservers, Web pages, etc), only
extracting 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 or via OCR), and paperkey can use them to
transform your existing public key into a secret key. 

Changes:
Initial announcement. 

Release focus: Initial freshmeat announcement 
      License: GNU General Public License v2 
  Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/paperkey/

            Homepage: 
http://freshmeat.net/redir/paperkey/71557/url_homepage/paperkey
              Tar/GZ: 
http://freshmeat.net/redir/paperkey/71557/url_tgz/paperkey-0.7.tar.gz