README

this is a copy of Oleh Yuschuk's PaperBack application to backup data into images. Documentation and windows binary available at: http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/

I'd like to get it working on GNU/Linux :)

PaperBack is a free application that allows you to back up your precious files on the ordinary paper in the form of the oversized bitmaps.
 If you have a good laser printer with the 600 dpi resolution, you can save up to 500,000 bytes of uncompressed data on the single A4/Letter sheet.
 Integrated packer allows for much better data density - up to 3,000,000+ (three megabytes) of C code per page. 

 Acknowledgements.

PaperBack would be not possible without the Reed-Solomon error correction. The code is written by Phil Karn (C) 2002. Phil allows use of his code under the terms of GPL.

AES encryption code is developed by Christophe Devine (C) 2001-2004. This code is also released under GPL.

bzip2 compression engine is developed by Julian R. Seward (C) 1996-2005. See sources for details. To my best knowledge (IANAL), his license is compatible with GPL.