Simple File Encrypt

A simple tool to quickly encrypt and decrypt a file using aes-256-ctr. This can be useful for encrypting production config files to store in git.

Install

npm install -g simple-file-encrypt

Key setup (Local env)

export SIMPLEFILE_ENCRYPT_KEY=abcd

Key setup (Config file)

echo 'acbd' > ~/.simple-file-encrypt-key

Development setup / process

1. Add config to .gitignore
2. Update config
3. Encrypt config - simple-file-encrypt production.json
4. Add the encrypted file to git - git add production.json.locked

Step 3 above creates a ./production.json.locked that can be safely added to git.

Production setup / process

1. Pull latest changes from git
2. Decrypt config (simple-file-decrypt production.json).

Step 2 re-creates the original production.json