paperkey // ? feature request

[vedaal at hush.com]

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
wrote on Tue Feb 10 19:18:22 CET 2009 :

>>uses a public key generated for only this purpose,
>> not put up on any keyserver,

>This seems to be a misapplication of asymmetric crypto.  Asymmetric
>crypto is generally inappropriate for session keys.


the situation i was describing is something like this:

[1] 'very-important-secret' encrypted in ascii armored form to 
unpublished public key using throw-keyid option 

[2] above mentioned message posted anonymously to newsgroup like 
comp.security.pgp.test 
from internet cafe, 
(pre-paid in cash, using new usb drive with nothing else on it)

[3] plausible deniability is maintained, even if entire secret 
keyring have to be given up, with all passphrases


Sven Radde email at sven-radde.de
wrote on Tue Feb 10 19:27:44 CET 2009 :

>Maybe this posting from a thread when I asked to extend paperkey 
for use
>with revocation certificates is also useful for Vedaal:
>http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2008-
October/034741.html


Yes, Thanks!
i really like the idea of hexadecimal encoding line by line with 
checksums 

it's a very useful and do-able way to print out a secret key block
with the plan of later having it be re-digitalized using OCR
(and even do-able if necessary to type it in line by line)
Thanks!


vedaal

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