Mathias M. matm
joostrijneveld
/ gpg2qrcodes.sh
Created
May 20, 2014 19:43
Producing printable QR codes for persistent storage of GPG private keys
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| # Heavily depends on: | |
| # libqrencode (fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/) | |
| # paperkey (jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/) | |
| # zbar (zbar.sourceforge.net) | |
| # Producing the QR codes: | |
| # Split over 4 codes to ensure the data per image is not too large. | |
| gpg --export-secret-key KEYIDGOESHERE | paperkey --output-type raw | base64 > temp | |
| split temp -n 4 IMG | |
| for f in IMG*; do cat $f | qrencode -o $f.png; done |