https://github.com/mimoo/eureka

Need to encrypt a file before sending it to someone? This is it.
https://github.com/mimoo/eureka

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Need to encrypt a file before sending it to someone? This is it.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mimoo/eureka
• Owner: mimoo
• License: other
• Created: 2017-02-20T20:53:56.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-03-16T04:41:39.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T20:45:03.219Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: aes-gcm, encryption, file
• Language: Go
• Size: 7.3 MB
• Stars: 133
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
![EUREKA](https://i.imgur.com/qSscFjx.png)

Eureka is a simple tool to encrypt files and folders. It works on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

## Security and Status

Eureka is pretty simple, and well commented. Anyone is free to audit the software themselves.

## Install

There are several ways to install Eureka, with more on the way.

**Binary**.

[Get a binary here](https://github.com/mimoo/eureka/releases).

**Go get**.

If you have [Golang](https://golang.org/) installed and `/usr/local/go/bin` is in your PATH, you should be able to simply get the binary by doing

```

go get github.com/mimoo/eureka

```

**Homebrew**.

If you are on MacOS, just use Homebrew:

```

brew tap mimoo/eureka && brew install mimoo/eureka/eureka

```

## Usage

**1.** You are trying to send *Bob* the file `myfile.txt`.Start by encrypting the file via:

```

eureka myfile.txt

```

which will return a one-time 256-bit AES key and create a new `myfile.txt.encrypted` file:

```

File encrypted at myfile.txt.encrypted

In a different secure channel, pass the following one-time key to your recipient.

613800fc6cf88f09aa6aeafab3eedd627503e6c5de28040c549efc2c6f80178d

```

**2.** Find a channel to send the encrypted file to *Bob*. It could be via email, or via dropbox, or via google drive, etc.

**3.** You then need to transmit the one-time key (`613800fc6cf88f09aa6aeafab3eedd627503e6c5de28040c549efc2c6f80178d`) to *Bob* in a **different channel**. For example, if you exchanged the file (or a link to the file) via email, then send this key to *Bob* via WhatsApp.

**If you send both the encrypted file and the one-time key in the same channel, encryption is useless**.

**4.** Once *Bob* receives the file and the one-time key from two different channels, he can decrypt the file via this command:

```

eureka myfile.txt.encrypted

```

which will create a new file `myfile.txt` under a `decrypted` folder containing the original content.