Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-20 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:04:40PM -0700, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: > >For example, the regular DSA+Elgamal secret key I just tested comes > >out to 1281 bytes. The secret parts of that (plus some minor packet > >structure) come to only 149 bytes. It's a lot easier to enter 149 > >bytes correct

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-20 Thread Casey Jones
Roscoe wrote: > I just tried OCR-A but with limited success. Will add in par2 and see > how things go with that. That should be interesting. I'm now leaning even more towards hex (base16) rather than base64. There would be less opportunity for confusion for the OCR. I was thinking it would be t

Re: GnuPG for a small company -- Questions before I start

2007-05-20 Thread Zeljko Vrba
"Jim Berland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are other flaws in the computer system that would have to be > addressed (a secretary has root access to the server to let her start > the daily backup process after work), but I'm not in charge of that. I > Huh? That requires only a single suid

Re: GnuPG for a small company -- Questions before I start

2007-05-20 Thread Jim Berland
Hi Alex On 5/17/07, Janusz A. Urbanowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I am going to try to set up GPG for our small company (about 15 > > people) and would like to ask you guys for some help. Following I will > > write down my thoughts on this, that I had so far. Commen

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:55:55PM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote: > Well, I'm able to do some tests now with old backup CD's. All my old > backups are still perfectly readable, the oldest being from February > 1998. I'll keep testing. > > With modern equipment, not burning discs with maximum speed see

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-20 Thread Roscoe
Thanks for all the replies :) I just tried OCR-A but with limited success. Will add in par2 and see how things go with that. 2D barcode seems alot more suited to the problem, will report back on how well that goes :) And yes, the ctan ocr package does have +=-/ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/m