{"id":238,"date":"2015-08-25T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T09:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2015-11-03T18:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T18:09:39","slug":"introducing-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Vault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vault<\/h2>\n

Vault is a command line utility for encrypting & decrypting things. Those things are stored on disk in\u00a0hidden<\/em> files, meaning in *nix they simply have a ‘.’ in front and don’t show up unless you type ls -la \ud83d\ude09 But anyway, who cares if someone can locate the files ! They are AES encrypted !<\/p>\n

I wrote Vault for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. To learn how to use encryption in Python<\/li>\n
  2. To store passwords for stuff<\/li>\n
  3. To turn Vault into methods in my Utilities class that I use for my daily programming activities. First write a command line utility, then write a class \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Vault Usage<\/h3>\n

    I literally wrote vault earlier today and even though it is super simple, I still find it cool & useful so I had to share. Here’s a demo on it’s simple usage !<\/p>\n

    Keys<\/h4>\n

    AES \/ Vault supports 16, 24, or 32 byte encryption keys. A byte is one character. Your key should be something ambiguous that you can remember and you should not use the ‘0123…’ example below. What would really be paranoid is to encrypt your keys in a separate vault somewhere \ud83d\ude42 Note, you will need to use the same key to encrypt as decrypt for a given stored piece of encrypted data.<\/p>\n

    Encrypting<\/h4>\n
    \u279c  vault git:(master) python store.py --name tuxlabs -t 'Well I could store a password or b00bs, cause everyone likes b00bs even the newbs' --key 01234567890987654321abcd\r\np\/hvz1hf9RIyBeyMmgL2CILvlM20vU72E075K+32tysNU8dIJOcX\/gVmRISYQTp0tHZ\/W+qL2mCvMFrMP3rGAV2kCNNjGQNnbUSgPibPGiqfwMrQm3\/EhH\/f18dZofDGTwcMmHZ3LiERuIZt1toU0w== was stored as tuxlabs\r\n\u279c  vault git:(master) \u2717<\/pre>\n
    Can You Read The File Contents ?<\/h4>\n
    \u279c  vault git:(master) \u2717 cat .tuxlabs \r\np\/hvz1hf9RIyBeyMmgL2CILvlM20vU72E075K+32tysNU8dIJOcX\/gVmRISYQTp0tHZ\/W+qL2mCvMFrMP3rGAV2kCNNjGQNnbUSgPibPGiqfwMrQm3\/EhH\/f18dZofDGTwcMmHZ3LiERuIZt1toU0w==%                                                                                                                     \u279c  vault git:(master) \u2717<\/pre>\n
    Decrypting<\/h4>\n
    \u279c  vault git:(master) \u2717 python retrieve.py --name tuxlabs --key 01234567890987654321abcd\r\nWell I could store a password or b00bs, cause everyone likes b00bs even the newbs\r\n\u279c  vault git:(master) \u2717<\/pre>\n
    Alternatively, you can hide the key from the command line, by not specifying it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
    \u279c  vault  python store.py --name JimmyJohns --text 'Really Fast'\r\nKey:\r\n1HHF5TPl0cklDU\/TXjMQ8nFeqK4zULQ50dVpJ+apgzQ= was stored as JimmyJohns\r\n\u279c  vault  python retrieve.py --name JimmyJohns\r\nKey:\r\nReally Fast\r\n\u279c  vault  cat .JimmyJohns \r\n1HHF5TPl0cklDU\/TXjMQ8nFeqK4zULQ50dVpJ+apgzQ=%                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 \u279c  vault<\/pre>\n
    Clone Vault on github<\/a><\/p>\n
    Enjoy !
    \nJason Riedel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Vault Vault is a command line utility for encrypting & decrypting things. Those things are stored on disk in\u00a0hidden files, meaning in *nix they simply have a ‘.’ in front and don’t show up unless you type ls -la \ud83d\ude09 But anyway, who cares if someone can locate the files ! They are AES encrypted […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,9,78],"tags":[64,65,63,62,77,69,70,68,67,55,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-encryption","7":"category-programming","8":"category-python","9":"category-security","10":"tag-aes","11":"tag-cbc","12":"tag-decryption","13":"tag-encryption","14":"tag-getpass","15":"tag-keypass","16":"tag-password-gorilla","17":"tag-password-safe","18":"tag-password-vault","19":"tag-python","20":"tag-vault","21":"h-entry","22":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuxlabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}