DISCLAIMER: This repo is not affiliated with Perkeep or the Perkeep Repo in any way, just a fan of the software.

Perkeep generates a secure key on startup if none is given. I fiddled with GnuPG for a bit and was unable to generate a key that perkeep would accept. Instead of digging into it too deeply, I discovered the ease with which the perkeep source could be imported and generate a key on the command line that way. All I'm really interested in doing is to be able to generate keys ahead of time, and couple them with low-level config of my own. There are a couple of issues around key generation / conformance, however I'm too lazy to track those down. If this repo becomes obsolete with a couple of lines of bash script and GnuPG, please let me know!

Simply go get the project and build it.

go get github.com/threeguys/pk-keygen
go build github.com/threeguys/pk-keygen

The program generates a .gpg file and .json file, containing the identity and secret ring settings. You will need to take the settings in the JSON file and incorporate them into your server-config.json in your perkeep installation.

$ pk-keygen -help
Usage of pk-keygen:
  -config string
    	Configuration information about key (default "secring-config.json")
  -secret string
    	Secret key ring file to generate (default "secring.gpg")

Create a key with my-secring.gpg and my-config.json filenames

$ pk-keygen -config my-config.json -secret my-secring.gpg
Generated key to my-secring.gpg
Generated config to my-config.json
  Key Identifier: CA02F5397BAD0BA0
$ cat my-config.json
{
  "identity": "CA02F5397BAD0BA0",
  "identitySecretRing": "my-secring.gpg"
}

I'm distributing this under the Apache 2.0 License, given that is how Perkeep is licensed. There's not really much code here, all the important stuff is in the perkeep libs.

I don't really want to be maintaining this repo, I would much rather use GnuPG or other common tools, however I will continue to keep it up-to-date with Perkeep releases, as long as I am still using Perkeep in my personal and open source projects. Feel free to submit PRs or Issues, however they will not be a top priority.