secret

Keep your little secrets, publicly.

Features

secret is the simplest secret store you can think of:

• Requires only one file ~/.secret that you can share publicly without fear.
• No configuration. Get back your file and you're done.
• Secret's name (hostname, mail, login, etc.) are also encrypted.
• Secret agent only trusts subprocesses. Not all user processes! How nice is that?
• Supports multiple passphrases. Not super user-friendly but nice to have.
• Depends only on the libhydrogen library.
• Small, simple and non obfuscated C code. Well, I hope so :)

Build and install

Clone the repository recursively:

$ git clone https://github.com/angt/secret --recursive
$ cd secret

Then, run as root:

# make install

As usual, you can customize the destination with DESTDIR and prefix.

Currently, bash completion is not installed. Download the file argz.sh then:

$ . argz.sh
$ complete -F _argz secret

Completion for secrets is only available in a trusted shell. See below.

Commands

Available commands:

    init       Init a secret storage for the user
    list       List all secrets for a given passphrase
    show       Print a secret
    new        Generate a new secret
    set        Set a new secret
    renew      Regenerate an existing secret
    reset      Update an existing secret
    agent      Run a process in a trusted zone
    version    Show version

All secrets are encrypted in the file ~/.secret. You can use a different file with the SECRET_STORE environment variable:

$ env SECRET_STORE=<FILE> secret ...

Examples

Initialize secret for the current user:

$ secret init

Add a new randomly generated secret:

$ secret new test
Passphrase:
9{6u0ue>5&W2+z#OR:`X<@-#

Show the secret:

$ secret show test
Passphrase:
9{6u0ue>5&W2+z#OR:`X<@-#

Start a trusted zone:

$ secret agent
Passphrase:

Now, the passphrase is not requested and completion fully works!

If you don't use bash but still want completion, run secret agent bash or (much better) send a PR to add support for your shiny shell :)

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For feature requests and bug reports, please create an issue.