paperkey

An OpenPGP key archiver. More information: <https://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/paperkey.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install paperkey
Ubuntu
apt-get install paperkey
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install paperkey
Fedora
dnf install paperkey
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install paperkey
OS X
brew install paperkey
Raspbian
apt-get install paperkey
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/paperkey

An OpenPGP key archiver. More information: <https://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/>.

  • Take a specific secret key and generate a text file with the secret data:
    paperkey --secret-key path/to/secret_key.gpg --output path/to/secret_data.txt
  • Take the secret key data in `secret_data.txt` and combine it with the public key to reconstruct the secret key:
    paperkey --pubring path/to/public_key.gpg --secrets path/to/secret_data.txt --output secret_key.gpg
  • Export a specific secret key and generate a text file with the secret data:
    gpg --export-secret-key key | paperkey --output path/to/secret_data.txt

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