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Enchive is a tool encrypts files to yourself for long-term archival.
It's intended as a focused, simple alternative to more complex
solutions such as GnuPG. This program has no external dependencies and
is very easy to build for local use.
is very easy to build for local use. Portability is emphasized over
performance.
Files are secured with uses ChaCha20, Curve25519, and SHA-224.
Files are secured with uses ChaCha20, Curve25519, and SHA-256.
## Usage
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This will reproduce `file.tar.gz`.
With no filenames, `archive` and `extract` operate on standard input
and output.
## Notes
There's no effort at error recovery. It bails out on the first error.
There's no effort at error recovery. It bails out on early on the
first error. It should clean up any incomplete files when it does so.
The `--derive` key generation option can be used to produce
deterministic keys which you can re-derive should your secret key
lost. This key derivation function is run more aggressively (slowly)
when generating a master key.
## Format