silence - a tool for safely backing up your ssh keys

Tool for safely backing up ssh keys in an git repository. The main idea of this is: to save a zipped and encrypted file on one of your private repositories

Usage

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Fork repo

You need to fork this repository and keep it private in your git cloud provider (Github/Bitbucket/Github). Reason for this is that you will have to keep an encrypted copy of your ssh keys.

Generate Backup

• run ./ssh/backup.sh
• or run the interactive menu ./ssh-menu.sh

This will create a file locally which will be encrypted. This file is stored at ./ssh-vault.tar.gz.gpg

gitignore

You will have to modify .gitignore so that you can save the generated encrypted file in your git cloud provider

Use the backup

• run ./ssh/unpack.sh && ./ssh/overwrite.sh
• or run the interactive menu ./ssh-menu.sh

Unpack will decrypt the ./ssh-vault.tar.gz.gpg file and store it's contents uncrypted in the folder ./ssh-vault

Overwrite will copy and overwrite the contents of ./ssh-vault into ~/.ssh

After this, it's good practice to delete ./ssh-vault folder

Done! you're good to go.

FAQ:

Q: OMG! Are you serious, do you understand how bad it is to store ssh keys online?

A: Yes, I get it, it's bad practice, but I preffer this over the pain of setting up my keys on each new machine I use.

Q: I don't trust you, are there better solutions?

A: Yes, try this: SSH with Lastpass CLI

Todo:

• Create better diagnostics info
• Delete "ssh-vault" folder after overwriting
• Replicate current behaviour to save AWS credentials
• Replicate current behaviour to save rClone credentials
• Replicate current behaviour to save Lastpass credentials