oboron-cli 0.5.0

Standalone install of the oboron CLI binaries (`ob` and `obz`) via pip — string-in/string-out symmetric encryption with obtext encoding.

oboron-cli (PyPI distribution)

pip-installable distribution of the oboron-cli command-line binaries — ob (string-in / string-out symmetric encryption with obtext encoding) and obz (z-tier obfuscation).

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

Install

pip install oboron-cli

Or with uv:

uv tool install oboron-cli

What you get

Two binaries:

• ob — secure encryption (a-tier and u-tier schemes: aasv, aags, apsv, apgs, upbc).
• obz — z-tier obfuscation (non-secure; included with the default all-schemes feature).

ob <SUBCOMMAND>

Subcommands:
  enc     (e)  Encrypt plaintext (output: obtext)
  dec     (d)  Decrypt obtext (auto-detects scheme by default)
  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

This is the first release of oboron-cli on PyPI from the oboron-tools-rs workspace; previous PyPI releases (0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0) came from the predecessor oboron-rs workspace before oboron-cli moved here. The 0.4.0 jump mirrors the version of the underlying Rust crate.

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

Conformance

The ob and obz binaries inside the wheel are the same ones published to crates.io, validated end-to-end against the canonical oboron test vectors by oboron-cli-conformance v0.2.0 (4197 pass, 0 fail across all five ob / obz suites).

License

MIT — see LICENSE.