opgpcard - OpenPGP Card

Create a VCard, a QR code and/or a printable business cards including OpenPGP key and fingerprint.

opgpcard is a tool to create a VCard [0] including OpenPGP [1] key and fingerprint, a QR code [2] of the VCard, a SVG [3] image formatted as a “business” card [4] to print including the QR code and or a batch of 10 those “business” cards to print in DIN4.

The idea comes from the Debian pgp-tools [5] gpg-key2ps script, which output a PostScript file which has your Key-ID, UIDs and fingerprint nicely formatted for printing paper slips to take with you to a signing-party.

However the slips do not have the format of a standard “business” card and they tend to be lost. They also do not include a QR code, quite useful these days to do not have to type all the OpenPGP fingerprint characters.

Sadly, most of the Address book [5] applications out there, do not implement the VCard properties [6] for OpenPGP, so when the QR code in these cards is scanned, the Address book application will import the mail address, but probably will ignore the OpenPGP key and/or fingerprint.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#OpenPGP

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG

[5] https://pgp-tools.alioth.debian.org/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_card

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_book#Software_address_book

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard#Properties

Installation

See Installation

Download

You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.

You can also clone the project with Git by running:

git clone https://github.com/juga0/opgpcard

Bugs and features

To report a bug or a feature request, please fill in an issue on the opgpcard issue tracker.

License

opgpcard is Copyright 2016, 2017 by juga (juga at riseup dot net) under the terms of the GPLv3 license.