sagecipher 0.6.0

Cipher for remote containers derived from ssh-agent signed challenge data

sagecipher (ssh agent crypt) is a very small module which provides a cipher keyed through ssh-agent. The key is obtained by generating random challenge data, passing this to ssh-agent to obtain a signature via the users private ssh-key for use as key material, and finally passing this through PBKDF2.

Installation

pip install sagecipher

Usage

Before using, ssh-agent must be running with at least one ssh-key available for producing cipher key material:

>>> from sagecipher import *
>>> cfail = Cipher()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "sagecipher/cipher.py", line 101, in __init__
    signature = sign_via_agent(self.challenge, self.fingerprint)
  File "sagecipher/cipher.py", line 230, in sign_via_agent
    raise SignError(SignError.E_NO_KEYS)
sagecipher.SignError: SSH agent is not running or no keys are available

With the ssh-agent environment set up and an ssh-key available, the following usage example should work:

$ source <(ssh-agent)
Agent pid 3710

$ ssh-add
Enter passphrase for /home/psherratt/.ssh/id_rsa:
Identity added: /home/psherratt/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/psherratt/.ssh/id_rsa)

>>> from sagecipher import *
>>>
>>> # Create a new cipher using first key available from ssh-agent
>>> c1 = Cipher()
>>>
>>> # Use the cipher header to create a second/future instance
>>> c2 = Cipher(c1.header())
>>>
>>> # Display fingerprint of the SSH key used for derivation of cipher key
>>> to_hex(c2.fingerprint)
'11:66:89:44:a3:ec:9b:1c:55:cd:f7:54:20:3b:09:c3'
>>>
>>> # Encrypt with the first instance, decrypt back with the second...
>>> unpad(c2.decrypt_string(c1.encrypt(pad("Hello, cryptic world!"))))
'Hello, cryptic world!'
>>>
>>> # Encrypt and decrypt using helper methods.  The cipher header is
>>> # stored in the encrypted ciphertext.
>>> ciphertext = encrypt_string("Alice, I think someone is listening!")
>>> plaintext = decrypt_string(ciphertext)
>>> plaintext
'Alice, I think someone is listening!'