Vault

Vault is a minimalistic CLI tool that encrypts and decrypts plain files into Vault files. (.vt).

The idea behind this tool is to have a CLI utility that can quickly and easily encrypt individual files, allowing users to securely store API tokens, secrets, credentials, or any private data on their own disk.

Table of Contents

• Advertising
• Encryption
• Requirements
• Getting Started
• Install via go
• Install via wget
• Build requirements
• Help
  • init
  • lock
  • unlock
  • temp
  • print
• Other filename
• Build
• Install go

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Are you also just a normal software developer or admin with lots of API keys, encryption keys or other secrets and credentials? Or do you simply have logs or plain text files that you want to send to someone securely? Then I have exactly what you are looking for today!

Hold on tight and take a closer look at this cli tool, because it might meet your exact needs.

Encryption

Vault uses asymmetric RSA encryption and symmetric AES-256 encryption to keep your data as secure as possible. To do this, vault uses private and public key on disk (default: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) and also asks you for a password.

Currently no elliptic curve support! Just rsa.

Getting Started

Requirements

Linux- or macos-like systems with go or wget & tar installed.

Getting Started

Start the latest repo version directly without leaving stuff in the current working dir:

go run github.com/NobleMajo/vault@latest

Install via go

For this section go is required, check out the install go guide.

go install github.com/NobleMajo/vault@latest

Install via wget

export CUSTOM_BIN_DIR="/usr/local/bin" # <- change if needed
export VAULT_VERSION="" # <- set latest version here

rm -rf $CUSTOM_BIN_DIR/vault
wget https://github.com/NobleMajo/vault/releases/download/v$VAULT_VERSION/vault-v$VAULT_VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz -O /tmp/vault.tar.gz
tar -xzvf /tmp/vault.tar.gz -C $CUSTOM_BIN_DIR/ vault
rm /tmp/vault.tar.gz

Build

Build requirements

To build, you need to install go. The required go version is in the go.mod file.

Usage

Vault operations are sub commands defined via the first command line argument.

Help

The following block is the main help output if you do not use a subcommand or use help:

Vault is a file encryption and decryption cli tool written in go.
For more help, visit https://github.com/NobleMajo/vault

Usage:
  vault [flags]
  vault [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  init        Create a initial encrypted vault file for default text
  lock        Locks your plain file into a vault file
  passwd      Changes the password of your vault file
  print       Prints the decrypted content of your vault file
  temp        Temporary unlocks your vault file into a plain file
  unlock      Unlocks your vault file into a plain file
  version     Prints version message

Flags:
  -h, --help      help for vault
  -b, --verbose   enable verbose mode (VAULT_VERBOSE)
  -v, --version   prints version

Use "vault [command] --help" for more information about a command.

init

Create a new locked vault file:

vault init

OR

lock

Add some content to your vault.txt and lock it:

vim vault.txt
vault lock

unlock

Unlock the vault as plain .txt file:

vault unlock

temp

Unlock the file for 5 seconds as .txt. In this time you can open it with an editor.

vault temp

print

Print the locked content in console:

vault print

Other filename

To choose another file than the vault.txt use the second argument without extensions: (test for test.txt and test.vt)

vault lock <filename>
vault temp <filename>
vault unlock <filename>
vault init <filename>
vault print <filename>

Build Instructions

For this section go is required, check out the install go guide.

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/NobleMajo/vault.git
cd vault

Build the vault binary from source code:

make build
./vault

Development

For this section go is required, check out the install go guide.

This part is work in progress, I want to use 'AIR' as auto-reload tool:

make dev #WIP

Install go

The required go version for this project is in the go.mod file.

To install and update go, I can recommend the following repo:

git clone git@github.com:udhos/update-golang.git golang-updater
cd golang-updater
sudo ./update-golang.sh

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome!
Interested users can refer to the guidelines provided in the CONTRIBUTING.md file to contribute to the project and help improve its functionality and features.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license, providing users with flexibility and freedom to use and modify the software according to their needs.

Disclaimer

This project is provided without warranties.
Users are advised to review the accompanying license for more information on the terms of use and limitations of liability.