Xenolith

Xenolith is a command-line based tool that allows for files to be encrypted with public keys and decrypted by users who have . With the main components being FiloSottile's age and str4d's rage library for encryption, Xenolith uses ssh-rsa, ssh-ed25519, and age/rages's keygen as keys.

Installation

Requirements

• Install age or rage

• Use Python 3.8.4 or higher

Installation

Install using pip

pip install xenolith

Usage

Xenolith uses 5 commands:

- xenolith
Contains a list of all the commands


- xenolith init [--encryption, -e]
Initializes the project in the given directory by creating a .secret folder. This folder contains a `recipients.txt` and `config.json` file.

Options:
-e, --encryption    Specifies an encryption library (age, rage). Defaults to age


- xenolith encryption [age/rage]
Changes the encryption library to age or rage


- xenolith add [key]
Adds a public key (Recipient) to the list of recipients that can access an encrypted file.


- xenolith remove [key]
Removes a public key from the list of recipients. The key must match one of the keys found in `.secret/recipients.txt`


- xenolith encrypt [file_name]
With a given set of recipients, encrypts the given file and appends an .age suffix at the end.


- xenolith decrypt [key_file] [file_path]
With a given key and file, decrypts a file that have been previously encrypted.

Contributing

To get started:

• Download Python 3.8.4
• Set up Python's Virtual Environment

  python3 -m venv venv
  

• Download the project's requirements and run venv

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  source ./venv/bin/activate
  

• Install age and rage
• To test the application locally, run:

  pip install --editable .
  

• Tests can be run by executing run_tests.sh found in the bin/ folder

License

This project uses the MIT license.