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NAME

       keyringer - encrypted and distributed secret sharing software

SYNOPSIS

       keyringer <keyring> <action> [options]...

DESCRIPTION

       Keyringer lets you manage and share secrets using GnuPG and Git in a distributed fashion.

       It has custom commands to create key-pairs and to encrypt, decrypt and re-encrypt secrets.
       It also supports encryption to multiple recipients and groups of recipients,  to  allow  a
       workgroup to share access to a single repository while restricting some secrets to subsets
       of the group.

       Secrets are encrypted using OpenPGP and added to a Git tree so that  they  can  be  synced
       with remote branches later.

ACTIONS

       Keyringer has three types of actions:

       1. Repository  lookup  and  manipulation  actions, which handle repository initialization,
          content tracking and navigation.

       2. Secret manipulation actions, which  take  care  of  encrypting,  decrypting  and  other
          read/write operations on secrets.

       3. Configuration actions, handling repository metadata.

REPOSITORY LOOKUP AND MANIPULATION ACTIONS

       find <expression>
              Find secrets in the repository.

       init <path> [remote]
              Initialize  a  new  keyringer  repository.  If a remote URL is specified, keyringer
              will clone an existing repository.

              After initialization, path will contain a folder structure for storing secrets  and
              metadata (user aka recipients, groups of recipients, etc).

              Also,  an entry will be added to $HOME/.keyringer/config allowing keyringer to find
              the keyring by its alias.

       destroy
              Alias for teardown action.

       git <action> <options>
              Git wrapper that operates from the toplevel keyring repository.  You can issue  any
              GIT(1) subcommand with this action to have it applied in the keyring repository.

       commit [arguments]
              Alias to "git commit".

       ls <path>
              List  contents  from  the toplevel repository keys folder or from relative paths if
              path is specified.  Like the git wrapper,  this  is  a  wrapper  around  the  LS(1)
              command.

       mkdir <path>
              Create a directory inside the repository keys folder.

       rmdir <path>
              Remove an empty folder inside the repository keys folder.

       tree <path>
              List  contents  from  the toplevel repository keys folder or from relative paths if
              path is specified using a tree-like format.  Like the ls wrapper, this is a wrapper
              around the TREE(1) command.

       shell  Run  keyringer  on  interactive  mode from a built-in command-line prompt where all
              other actions can be called and are operated from the current selected keyring.

              An additional "cd" internal command is available for directory navigation.

              All <secret> parameters from actions invoked from the shell are  called  relatively
              from the current selected directory.

       teardown
              Remove  permanently a local copy of a repository, very dangerous if you have just a
              single copy.

       check  Run maintenance checks in a keyring.

SECRET MANIPULATION ACTIONS

       All secret manipulation actions operate  upon  a  secret  which  is  the  pathname  of  an
       encrypted file relative to the keyring with optional .asc extension.

       If the .asc extension is omitted, keyringer will add it at the end of the pathname.

       No spaces are allowed in the secret name.

       Secret  manipulation  actions  do not commit changes into the secret repository.  Instead,
       the user has to manually commit the changes using the git wrapper action.

       append <secret>
              Append contents into a secret by decrypting the secret, appending lines  read  from
              the standard input and encrypting again.

       append-batch <secret>
              Append contents into a secret, batch mode.

       decrypt <secret>
              Decrypts a secret into standard output.

       del <secret>
              Removes a secret using Git.  After deleting a secret a git commit and push is still
              needed to update remote repositories.

              Please note that this command does not remove the secret from the Git  history.  To
              completely  remove  a  file from a keyring, you should also rewrite the Git history
              yourself.

       delete <secret>
              Alias for del action.

       rm <secret>
              Alias for del action.

       cp <secret> <dest>
              Copy a secret.

       mv <secret> <dest>
              Rename a secret.

       edit <secret>
              Edit a secret by temporarily decrypting it, opening the  decrypted  copy  into  the
              text editor defined by the $EDITOR environment variable and then re-encrypting it.

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              set to VIM and disables the .viminfo file.

       encrypt <secret> [file]
              Encrypts  content  from standard input or file into secret pathname.  No spaces are
              supported in the secret name.   If  file  is  actually  a  folder,  keyringer  will
              recursivelly encrypt all it's contents.

       encrypt-batch <secret> [file]
              Encrypt  content,  batch  mode.   Behavior is identical to encrypt action, but less
              verbose.  Useful inside scripts.

       genkeys <ssh|gpg|x509|x509-self|ssl|ssl-self> [options]
              Wrapper to generate encryption key-pairs, useful for automated key deployment.

       genpair <ssh|gpg|x509|x509-self|ssl|ssl-self> [options]
              Alias for genkeys action.

       open <secret>
              Decrypt a secret into a temporary folder and open it using xdg-open, which tries to
              figure out the file type and then calls the associated application.

              After  the application exits, keyringer encrypts the temporary decrypted file again
              into the secret file and deletes the temporary file.

       pwgen <secret> [size]
              Generates a random passphrase and stores into secret pathname with optional entropy
              size in bytes.  Default size is 20.

              Passphrases will be slightly bigger than size due to base64 conversion.

              With  this  action  you can generate and store a passphrase without need to see it.
              Combined with clip or sclip action provides an hygienic way to handle secrets.

       recrypt <secret>
              Re-encrypts a secret by decrypting it and encrypting it again.  Useful  when  users
              are  added into the recipient configuration.  If no secret is given, all secrets in
              the repository are re-encrypted.

       clip <secret>
              Copy the first  line  of  a  secret  to  the  clipboard,  following  password-store
              convention.

       xclip <secret>
              Alias to clip action.

       sclip <secret>
              Same  as  clip  action,  but sleeps five seconds, overwrite clipboard and exit.  If
              xdotool is available, it also  switches  to  the  next  window  using  the  alt+Tab
              shortcut.   This  action  is useful to be invoked by a custom key combo in a window
              manager so it becomes easy  to  provide  keyringer  managed  passphrases  to  other
              applications such as a web browser.

CONFIGURATION ACTIONS

       commands
              List available actions, useful for shell completion and syntax check.

       options <ls|edit|add>
              List, edit or add miscellaneous repository options.

              Repository  options  are  settings  which  are  saved in the repository as a global
              configuration stanza for a given keyring, shared by all users with  access  to  the
              repository.

              Options  are  written using the KEY=VALUE syntax.  All lines starting with the hash
              (#) character are interpreted as comments.

       preferences <ls|edit|add>
              List, edit or add user preferences for a given repository.

              User preferences are settings which  are  saved  in  the  user's  keyringer  folder
              ($HOME/.keyringer/), and not shared with the other users.

              Preferences  are  written  using the KEY=VALUE syntax.  All lines starting with the
              hash (#) character are interpreted as comments.

       usage  Show keyringer usage information.

       help   Alias for usage action.

       recipients <ls|edit> <recipients-file>
              List, create or edit recipients configuration.

              Recipients files are lists of OpenPGP public key fingerprints  which  are  used  by
              keyringer when encrypting secrets and associated with email aliases.

              Keyringer  uses  a default recipients file, but specifying a custom recipients-file
              pathname will override this default.

              For instance, if a user encrypts a secret to a file  in  the  keyring  repository's
              accounting  folder,  a recipients-file under accounting will be used.  Encrypting a
              secret    into    accounting/bank-accounts    will     result     in     a     file
              $KEYRING_FOLDER/keys/accounting/bank-accounts.asc  encrypted  using the public keys
              listed in the config file$KEYRING_FOLDER/config/recipients/accounting.

              Each  line  in  a  recipients  file  has  entries  in  the   format   'john@doe.com
              XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',  where  john@doe.com is an alias for the
              OpenPGP public key whose fingerprint is XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.

              All lines starting with the hash (#) character are interpreted as comments.

              Parameters to the recipients action are:

              ls     List all existing recipients files.

              edit   Create or edit a recipients file.

                     Editing happens using  the  editor  specified  by  the  $EDITOR  environment
                     variable.

                     The  required  parameter  recipients-file  is  interpreted  relative  to the
                     $KEYRING_FOLDER/config/recipients/ folder.

FILES

       $HOME/.keyringer/config
              User's main configuration file used to map alias names to keyrings.

       $HOME/.keyringer/keyring
              User preferences for the keyringer aliased keyring keyring.

       $KEYRING_FOLDER/config/options
              Custom keyring options which will be applied for all users that use  the  keyringer
              repository.

LIMITATIONS

       Keyringer currently has the following limitations:

       1. Metadata  is  not  encrypted,  meaning  that  an  attacker  with  access to a keyringer
          repository can discover all public key IDs used for encryption, and which  secrets  are
          encrypted  to  which  keys.   This  can  be  improved  in  the future by encrypting the
          repository configuration with support  for  the  --hidden-recipient  GnuPG  option  and
          encrypted repository options.

       To  mitigate that, it's possible to keep the repo just atop of an encrypted and non-public
       place.

       2. History is not  rewritten  by  default  when  secrets  are  removed  from  a  keyringer
          repository.   After a secret is removed with the del action, it will still be available
          in the repository history even after a commit.  This is by  design  for  the  following
          reasons:

       • It's  the  default behavior of the Git content tracker.  Forcing the deletion by default
         could break the expected behavior and hence  limit  the  repository's  backup  features,
         which can be helpful if someone mistakenly overwrites a secret.

       • History  rewriting  cannot  be  considered  a  security measure against the unauthorized
         access to a secret as  it  doesn't  automatically  update  all  working  copies  of  the
         repository.

         In  the  case  that  the  secret  is  a passphrase, the recommended measure against such
         attacks is to change the passphrase,  making  useless  the  knowledge  of  the  previous
         secret.

         Users  wishing  to  edit  their repository history should proceed manually using the git
         action.

       3. Keyringer does not protect data which were not encrypted to a keyring,  so  be  careful
          when decrypting secrets and writing them to the disk or other storage media.

       Pay special attention that keyringer outputs data to stdout, which could be easily spotted
       by any agent looking directly at you computer screen.

       The xclip action even copies secret data to the X11 clipboard, which can  be  accessed  by
       any application running in the user's X11 session, so use this feature carefully.

SEE ALSO

       The README file distributed with Keyringer contains full documentation.

       The   Keyringer   source   code   and   all   documentation   may   be   downloaded   from
       <https://keyringer.pw>.

AUTHORS

       Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net>.