On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, at 15:11, Matthew Smith via tarsnap-users wrote: > Hi, > > Many Bitcoin wallets support encoding your wallet's private key into a > short mnemonic phrase that can be written down on paper. Does anyone > know of a tool that I can use to encode my Tarsnap private key so that > it too can be easily written down on paper? > > Thanks, > Matthew. >
https://lab.whitequark.org/notes/2016-08-24/archiving-cryptographic-secrets-on-paper/ is linked from the tarsnap faq. Personally I use backup only keys on servers and for the master key just printed it out and gave to a copy to my lawyer. I have no idea how you would scan these barcodes but presumably that is not so complicated. — Dave Cottlehuber
