obcrypt-cli (PyPI distribution)

pip-installable distribution of the obcrypt command-line binary — bytes-in / bytes-out authenticated symmetric encryption (the oboron protocol's cryptographic core).

The wheel is binary-only: it ships the prebuilt Rust obcrypt binary, packaged so pip install obcrypt-cli drops it on $PATH. There is no Python module — import obcrypt_cli will not work. Use it from the shell, or via subprocess.

Install

pip install obcrypt-cli

Or with uv:

uv tool install obcrypt-cli

What you get

A single binary, obcrypt, supporting:

obcrypt <SUBCOMMAND>

Subcommands:
  encrypt (e)   Encrypt plaintext bytes under a scheme
  decrypt (d)   Decrypt ciphertext bytes (scheme supplied by the caller)
  keygen  (k)   Generate a fresh random 128-character hex key
  init    (i)   Initialize configuration with a fresh profile
  config  (c)   Show or update configuration
  profile (p)   Manage key profiles
  key           Print the active profile's key
  completions   Generate shell completion script

Full CLI documentation lives in the Rust crate's README on crates.io and its repository.

Why ship a Rust binary via pip?

The Python ecosystem has the broadest reach for ad-hoc tool installation across operating systems. Users who already manage their tooling with pip or uv can pull in obcrypt without adding another package manager. Functionally identical to cargo install obcrypt-cli — different distribution channel, same binary.

Conformance

The obcrypt binary inside the wheel is the same one published to crates.io, validated end-to-end against the canonical oboron test vectors by oboron-cli-conformance 1.0.0.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.