kurkop/ipfs-key

A program to generate ipfs private keys

ipfs-key

A tool for easily generating ipfs keypairs

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Contribute
• License

Installation

$ go get github.com/whyrusleeping/ipfs-key

Usage

When run, it will write the bytes of the serialized private key to stdout. By default, a 2048 bit RSA key will be generated. In this case the key size can be changed by specifying the -bitsize option. The key type can be changed by specifying the -type option (rsa or ed25519).

$ ipfs-key -bitsize=4096 > my-rsa4096.key
$ ipfs-key -type=ed25519 > my-ed.key

Kubernetes

ipfs-key creates a public id and a secret key (hex). This means you should encrypt it to base64.

ipfs-key -bitsize=4096 | base64

Now, if you want to add that secret to kubernetes you must apply base64 again.

echo "Last value" | base64

So, you can add it as Kubernetes secret.

Contribute

PRs accepted.

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2016 Jeromy Johnson