Announcing paperbackup.py to backup keys as QR codes on paper

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Hello Friends,

Ok I am no coder so I am trying to bungle my way thru setting up
paperbackup.py.

My goal was to be able to print out a paper encrypted backup of a strong
key that I can use to encrypt data or other keys. I tried the Windows
Paperbackup from OllyDbg but it is older, on Windows (I'm on Linux atm) and
was having a hard time getting the roundtrip to work with my printer and
scanner. Paperbackup.py looked like a smart idea and I like the redundancy
of the QR code and text string outputs. I tried the usage instructions....

1. the first issue was I think specifically you need to prefix
"paperbackup.py" with "python" correct?
2. second issue was when I do #1 I get

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "paperbackup.py", line 35, in <module>
>     import qrencode
> ImportError: No module named qrencode
>

3. I may be failing to install all the dependencies properly. I did  "sudo
apt install qrencode" and seems installed (qrencode version 3.4.4 Copyright
(C) 2006-2012 Kentaro Fukuchi), but no change in the ImportError in #2. Is
there some other way to "hook" qrencode into paperbackup.py? I tried
putting it all into the same folder but it doesn't seem to help.

danke schoen!
- bexnews

> Announcing paperbackup.py to backup keys as QR codes on paper *Gerd v.
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to announce a program I wrote to backup GnuPG and SSH keys as
> qrcodes on paper:
>
> paperbackup.py https://github.com/intra2net/paperbackup
>
> This is designed as fallback if all your regular backups failed to restore or
> were lost.
>
> Usage is like this:
>
> gpg2 --armor --export "User Name" >key.asc
> gpg2 --armor --export-secret-key "User Name" >>key.asc
> paperbackup.py key.asc
> paperrestore.sh key.asc.pdf | diff key.asc -
> lpr key.asc.pdf
>
> You'll find all the details, reasoning and examples in the README.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gerd
>
>
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