privage is a terminal-based password manager and general file encryption tool that uses age to protect credentials and other secret files.
It’s designed for users who want to keep one encrypted file per credential or secret while backing up the encrypted directory to untrusted third-party services such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. Instead of exposing meaningful filenames, privage stores encrypted files under hash-based .privage filenames, making it suitable for repositories or other storage locations where both content and metadata should remain private.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Stores credentials as structured TOML files with fields for login details, passwords, URLs, API keys, and other associated data.
- Encrypts ordinary files as well as password records, using custom categories and labels for organisation.
- Supports optional YubiKey PIV use to encrypt and decrypt the age secret key.
- Provides commands to add, list, show, copy, decrypt, reencrypt, rename, delete, and rotate encrypted items.
- Can rotate the secret key and reencrypt tracked files with a single command.
- Offers stateless usage for automation by explicitly passing the key and repository paths.
- Includes built-in Bash completion for all commands.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/revelaction/privage
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Developer: revelaction
License: MIT License
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