PHP wrapper for the age command line encryption tool

Encrypt and decrypt files with age from PHP. This library is only a wrapper for the the command line tool, it does not implement the C2CP age specification in PHP.

// Encrypt a file with a generated key
$age = new FileEncryption("hello.txt");
$keypair = $age->keygen("hello.key")->encrypt("hello.txt.age");

// Encrypt a file with a specific public key
$age->public_key("age1mrf8uana2kan6jsrnf04ywxycvl4nnkzzk3et8rdz6fe6vg7upssclnak7")->encrypt("hello.txt.age");

// Decrypt a file with a key file
$age = new FileEncryption("hello.txt.age");
$age->private_key("hello.key")->decrypt("decrypted-hello.txt");

Installation

This library requires PHP 8.1+ and the age command line tool.

Install the age command line tool

Install this library with composer

composer require victorwesterlund/php-age

How to use

Import and use the library:

require_once "vendor/autoload.php";

use \Age\FileEncryption;

Encrypt a file

Encrypt a file on disk by passing it to the FileEncryption constructor

// Relative or absolute path to a file that should be encrypted
$age = new FileEncryption("hello.txt");

Note The library will not archive a folder for you. You'll have to tar your folder before passing it to FileEncryption

Generated key pair

You can encrypt a file with a generated key pair (age-keygen) by chaining keygen()

// encrypt() will return the generated keypair as an assoc array
$keypair = $age->keygen()->encrypt("hello.txt.age"); // ["public" => "...", "private" => "..."]

You can also save the generated key file to disk by passing an absolute or relative path to keygen()

$keypair = $age->keygen("hello.key)->encrypt("hello.txt.age"); // ["public" => "...", "private" => "..."]

Existing public key

Encrypt a file with an existing public key by chaining the public_key() method

$keypair = $age->public_key("age1mrf8uana2kan6jsrnf04ywxycvl4nnkzzk3et8rdz6fe6vg7upssclnak7")->encrypt("hello.txt.age"); // ["public" => "age1mrf8uana2kan6jsrnf04ywxycvl4nnkzzk3et8rdz6fe6vg7upssclnak7", "private" => null]

Decrypt a file

Decrypt a file on disk by passing it to the FileEncryption constructor

// Relative or absolute path to a file that should be decrypted
$age = new FileEncryption("hello.txt.age");

Chain private_key() with an absolute or relative path to the corresponding key file

$age->private_key("hello.key")->decrypt("decrypted-hello.txt"); // true

Optional features

Enable PEM encoding by chaining the optional armor() method

$keypair = $age->armor()->keygen()->encrypt("hello.txt.age");