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[entro-pi]

What were you trying to do

encrypt and then decrypt a message to myself

What happened

[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo-keygen -o blinko.txt
Public key: age1uk0cpzk0m6yvhy4nhu636hmeq5taklwedxyvq5yqw2pjezec3aeqr6z6tf
[her@noodlieness keys]$ cat blinko.txt 
# created: 2019-12-27T18:11:59-08:00
# public key: age1uk0cpzk0m6yvhy4nhu636hmeq5taklwedxyvq5yqw2pjezec3aeqr6z6tf
AGE-SECRET-KEY-18WHG2YFG6XTTJASHXXUFD3WRAD0MN6VSR6H3C4FWPE00FUQ6LP2QKMLPLV
[her@noodlieness keys]$ touch psst.txt
[her@noodlieness keys]$ echo BANANARAMA >> psst.txt
[her@noodlieness keys]$ age -i psst.txt -o psst.age
bash: age: command not found...
Failed to search for file: Failed to download gpg key for repo 'google-cloud-sdk': Status code: 404 for https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg;https:/packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg (IP: 172.217.14.238)
[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -i psst.txt -o psst.keepo
Error: -i/--identity can't be used in encryption mode.
Did you forget to specify -d/--decrypt?
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ age -e psst.txt
bash: age: command not found...
Failed to search for file: Failed to download gpg key for repo 'google-cloud-sdk': Status code: 404 for https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg;https:/packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg (IP: 172.217.14.238)
[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -e psst.txt
flag provided but not defined: -e
Usage:
    age -r RECIPIENT [-a] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
    age --decrypt [-i KEY] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]

Options:
    -o, --output OUTPUT         Write the result to the file at path OUTPUT.
    -a, --armor                 Encrypt to a PEM encoded format.
    -p, --passphrase            Encrypt with a passphrase.
    -r, --recipient RECIPIENT   Encrypt to the specified RECIPIENT. Can be repeated.
    -d, --decrypt               Decrypt the input to the output.
    -i, --identity KEY          Use the private key file at path KEY. Can be repeated.

INPUT defaults to standard input, and OUTPUT defaults to standard output.

RECIPIENT can be an age public key, as generated by age-keygen, ("age1...")
or an SSH public key ("ssh-ed25519 AAAA...", "ssh-rsa AAAA...").

KEY is a path to a file with age secret keys, one per line
(ignoring "#" prefixed comments and empty lines), or to an SSH key file.
Multiple keys can be provided, and any unused ones will be ignored.

Example:
    $ age-keygen -o key.txt
    Public key: age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p
    $ tar cvz ~/data | age -r age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p > data.tar.gz.age
    $ age -d -i key.txt -o data.tar.gz data.tar.gz.age
[her@noodlieness keys]$ ls
blinko.txt  psst.txt
[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -i blinko.txt -r blinko.txt -o psst.keepo
Error: -i/--identity can't be used in encryption mode.
Did you forget to specify -d/--decrypt?
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -r blinko.txt -o psst.keepo
Error: unknown recipient type: "blinko.txt"
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ cat blinko.txt 
# created: 2019-12-27T18:11:59-08:00
# public key: age1uk0cpzk0m6yvhy4nhu636hmeq5taklwedxyvq5yqw2pjezec3aeqr6z6tf
AGE-SECRET-KEY-18WHG2YFG6XTTJASHXXUFD3WRAD0MN6VSR6H3C4FWPE00FUQ6LP2QKMLPLV
[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -r age1uk0cpzk0m6yvhy4nhu636hmeq5taklwedxyvq5yqw2pjezec3aeqr6z6tf -o psst.keepo psst.txt
Error: failed to open output file "psst.keepo": open psst.keepo: file exists
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ rm psst.keepo
[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -r age1uk0cpzk0m6yvhy4nhu636hmeq5taklwedxyvq5yqw2pjezec3aeqr6z6tf -o psst.keepo psst.txt
[her@noodlieness keys]$ ls
blinko.txt  psst.keepo  psst.txt
[her@noodlieness keys]$ cat psst.keepo
age-encryption.org/v1
-> X25519 kvPkGMflX3AUVKiNx6kSwRFh+pHbSqBiKPl9cHaQVwQ
UmUNKlfqVvtay5VF8NBvTm94pFF1TwzqzISAZsC7riw
--- tl8SAlrTcCE1sAiKz/wRzv7VKu1wDmit3cc1RV+Mk5c
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����8o�@�U�=����-6�[`��
q�g]$���c��Y[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -d psst.keepo
Error: no identity matched a recipient
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -d psst.keepo -i blinko.txt
Error: too many arguments.
age accepts a single optional argument for the input file.
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -d psst.keepo
Error: no identity matched a recipient
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ rm psst.keepo
[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -r age1uk0cpzk0m6yvhy4nhu636hmeq5taklwedxyvq5yqw2pjezec3aeqr6z6tf -o keepo.psst psst.txt
[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -d keepo.psst
Error: no identity matched a recipient
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -i AGE-SECRET-KEY-18WHG2YFG6XTTJASHXXUFD3WRAD0MN6VSR6H3C4FWPE00FUQ6LP2QKMLPLV -d keepo.psst
Error: failed to open file: open AGE-SECRET-KEY-18WHG2YFG6XTTJASHXXUFD3WRAD0MN6VSR6H3C4FWPE00FUQ6LP2QKMLPLV: no such file or directory
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[her@noodlieness keys]$ keepo -i blinko.txt -d keepo.psst
BANANARAMA
[her@noodlieness keys]$ 

In the end it was the fact that I had to use the raw key as a recipient, and the identity file itself when decoding.

Otherwise, I love it! Thank you! I'm going to use it in production, because I'm a frothing mad data scientist.