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Archiving secret keys to printed 2D data matrix
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Produce with following steps:

paperkey --output-type raw < /tmp/mykey.gpg \
    > /tmp/mykey.paperkey
dmtxwrite -e 8 /tmp/mykey.paperkey > /tmp/mykey.paperkey.png

To reassemble, scan to JPG and then:

gpg2 --import /tmp/mykey.pub.asc
gpg2 --export > /tmp/pubring.gpg # To handle GPG 2.1 keyring format change
convert /tmp/mykey.jpg -colors 2 /tmp/mykey.paperkey.png
dmtxread /tmp/mykey.paperkey.png | \
    paperkey --pubring /tmp/pubring.gpg > mykey.gpg
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