oboron-cli (PyPI distribution)

pip-installable distribution of the oboron-cli command-line binary — ob, a string-in / string-out authenticated symmetric encryption tool with obtext encoding.

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

Install

pip install oboron-cli

Or with uv:

uv tool install oboron-cli

What you get

The ob binary — authenticated encryption over the four oboron core schemes (dsiv, psiv, dgcmsiv, pgcmsiv):

ob <SUBCOMMAND>

Subcommands:
  enc     (e)  Encrypt plaintext (output: obtext)
  dec     (d)  Decrypt obtext (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
  completion   Generate shell completion script

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

Relation to the previous oboron-cli PyPI releases

1.0.0 tracks oboron protocol spec 1.0 (rev3): authenticated only, the four property-prefixed core schemes, hex-only keys, and no scheme auto-detection. The obfuscation binary that earlier releases shipped is no longer part of oboron-cli. The earliest PyPI releases (0.1.0–0.3.0) came from the predecessor oboron-rs workspace; from 0.4.0 the distribution has been built from the oboron-tools-rs workspace.

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 ob without adding another package manager. Functionally identical to cargo install oboron-cli — different distribution channel, same binary.

Conformance

The ob 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.

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.