Secret CLI

This workshop will have you make a CLI tool for holding all your secrets. It will be a simple tool that will allow you to store and retrieve secrets from a file. The file will be encrypted using a password that you provide.

Credits

Thanks to San Diego Gophers for this idea.

Requirements

• Go

Goals

• Create a CLI tool that can store and retrieve secrets
• The secrets should be stored in a file

The output should be something like;

$ secret set twitter_api_key "some value here" -k="your-encoding-key"
# Value set!
$ secret get twitter_api_key -k="your-encoding-key"
# "some value here"

Help

You can find help in the tips section, careful opening it though, there may be spoiler ideas in the file names.