PaperAge – Easy and secure paper backups of (smallish) secrets
Take any plaintext input, encrypt it using Age, and generate a printable PDF with a QR code that's easy to scan back in. Oh, and this is my first Rust project so some the code might not be the best.
PaperAge – Easy and secure paper backups of (smallish) secrets launched on February 8, 2023 with 14 votes, #1,339 of 3,829 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
PaperAge is a tool that encrypts plaintext secrets using Age encryption and generates a printable PDF containing a QR code for easy recovery. Users can scan the QR code back into the system to retrieve their encrypted data, making it suitable for creating physical backups of sensitive information. The tool is designed for developers who need a straightforward way to store smaller secrets on paper.
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From the sources
Easy and secure paper backups of secrets. Contribute to matiaskorhonen/paper-age development by creating an account on GitHub.
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