# \[ANN\] keybox 1.0.0 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [15 January 2007 03:15 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457 "2007-01-15T03:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Hinegardner)\ **Post date:** [15 January 2007 03:15 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/1 "2007-01-15T03:15:52Z")
keybox version 1.0.0 has been released.   [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for secure password storage and password generation. {{ Changelog for Version 1.0.0 }} === Version 1.0.0 \* Initial public release \* +keybox+ - Full basic functionality   - database creation   - basic CRUD operations   - searching   - import and export of CSV's   - colorized output \* +kpg+ - Full basic functionality   - pick between random and pronounceable passwords   - set minimum and maximum password length   - set symbol sets to use in password generation   [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > **···** > > # -- > > Jeremy Hinegardner [jeremy@hinegardner.org](mailto:jeremy@hinegardner.org) ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Brown1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greg\_Brown1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Greg_Brown1)\ **Post date:** [15 January 2007 05:17 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/2 "2007-01-15T05:17:01Z")
Neat. you may want to look at Highline for OS independent password entry. > **···** > > On 1/14/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > > keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > > > >   [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > > > Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > secure password storage and password generation. ---
**Author:** ![Bonhote\_Andre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Bonhote\_Andre](https://rubytalk.org/u/Bonhote_Andre)\ **Post date:** [15 January 2007 07:45 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/3 "2007-01-15T07:45:48Z")
Hi! > keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > >   [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > secure password storage and password generation. Nice, but it looks terrible on my whiteish terminal. Is there an easy way to change the colors? Cheers André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: andre.bonhote@colt.net > **[Colt Technology Services | Managed Network & Voice Services Provider](https://www.colt.net/)** > > Colt provides world-class global network and voice services: optical, ethernet, cloud, cybersecurity, capital markets, business internet & VPN, and voice. Data | Voice | Managed Services [PGP.sig](https://rubytalk.org/uploads/short-url/5hCQEHZUmpsDZT31WkuhoPzlfIP.sig) (194 Bytes) > **···** > > On 15.01.2007, at 04:15, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Hinegardner)\ **Post date:** [15 January 2007 16:21 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/4 "2007-01-15T16:21:24Z")
I considered using Highline and even looked at how it handled stty for inspiration. But one of the goals I wanted for this was to not depend on any gems so that it could be installed on USB drives or other portable storage device. And so its only requirement for daily usage would be ruby. But maybe that's thinking too much. I could easily take out the prompting and replace it with Highline. Although that just brings up another issue. What's the best way to have your personal stash of ruby gems or installation or something on a USB drive or something like that and make it easily usable from any machine that has ruby installed on it. Or for that matter, having different ruby's for different platforms all installed on a portable drive so you can plug it into any machine and use all your pure ruby stuff ? enjoy, -jeremy > **···** > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:17:01PM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > > > On 1/14/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > \>keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > > \> > > \> [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > \> > > \>Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > \>secure password storage and password generation. > > > > Neat. you may want to look at Highline for OS independent password entry. > > # -- > > Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy@hinegardner.org ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Brown1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greg\_Brown1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Greg_Brown1)\ **Post date:** [15 January 2007 18:00 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/5 "2007-01-15T18:00:22Z")
To double plug, Highline would make that easy too. 🙂 You can toggle on and colors 🙂 > **···** > > On 1/15/07, Bonhôte André \ wrote: > > > \> Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > \> secure password storage and password generation. > > > > Nice, but it looks terrible on my whiteish terminal. Is there an easy > > way to change the colors? ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Hinegardner)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 02:46 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/6 "2007-01-16T02:46:37Z")
Not from a user-configurable standpoint. But its a great idea so I'll put it on the feature tracker. Hmm... that could make a good separate library on its own. I may have to do that. If you can wait a week or so I can find some time to make userconfigurable colors available. In the meantime, all the colors are configured from the file lib/keybox/term\_io.rb. You could change the color in there, just change the values on the value side of the COLORS hash and probably make the default to not be bold in the 'colorize' method. I have a patch submitted to add a --no-color option already, and I'll probably incorporate that too. I'm just please that people find it useful enough to tell me whats missing so I can make it better :-). Thanks for the feedback folks. enjoy, -jeremy > **···** > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:45:48PM +0900, Bonh?te Andr? wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > On 15.01.2007, at 04:15, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > > > > \>keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > > \> > > \> [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > \> > > \>Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > \>secure password storage and password generation. > > > > Nice, but it looks terrible on my whiteish terminal. Is there an easy > > way to change the colors? > > # -- > > Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy@hinegardner.org ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Brown1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greg\_Brown1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Greg_Brown1)\ **Post date:** [15 January 2007 18:25 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/7 "2007-01-15T18:25:43Z")
Just vendor HighLine with your tool. It's only like, 3 or 4 files, and since we've got it pretty well stabilized it should be solid and not need to be updated any time soon... > **···** > > On 1/15/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:17:01PM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > > \> On 1/14/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > \> \>keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > > \> \> > > \> \> [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > \> \> > > \> \>Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > \> \>secure password storage and password generation. > > \> > > \> Neat. you may want to look at Highline for OS independent password entry. > > \> > > > > I considered using Highline and even looked at how it handled stty > > for inspiration. But one of the goals I wanted for this was to not > > depend on any gems so that it could be installed on USB drives or other > > portable storage device. And so its only requirement for daily usage > > would be ruby. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Brown1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greg\_Brown1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Greg_Brown1)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 03:08 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/8 "2007-01-16T03:08:08Z")
You don't have to 🙂 require "highline/import" # Supported color sequences. colors = %w{black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white} # Using color() with symbols. colors.each\_with\_index do |c, i|   say("This should be \<%= color('#{c}', :#{c}) %\>!")   if i == 0     say( "This should be " +          "\<%= color('white on #{c}', :white, :on\_#{c}) %\>!")   else     say( "This should be " +          "\<%= color( '#{colors[i - 1]} on #{c}',                      :#{colors[i - 1]}, :on\_#{c} ) %\>!")   end end # Using color with constants. say("This should be \<%= color('bold', BOLD) %\>!") say("This should be \<%= color('underlined', UNDERLINE) %\>!") # Using constants only. say("This might even \<%= BLINK %\>blink\<%= CLEAR %\>!") # It even works with list wrapping. erb\_digits = %w{Zero One Two Three Four} +              ["\<%= color('Five', :blue) %%\>"] +              %w{Six Seven Eight Nine} say("\<%= list(#{erb\_digits.inspect}, :columns\_down, 3) %\>") > **···** > > On 1/15/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:45:48PM +0900, Bonh?te Andr? wrote: > > \> Hi! > > \> > > \> On 15.01.2007, at 04:15, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > > \> > > \> \>keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > > \> \> > > \> \> [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > \> \> > > \> \>Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > \> \>secure password storage and password generation. > > \> > > \> Nice, but it looks terrible on my whiteish terminal. Is there an easy > > \> way to change the colors? > > > > Not from a user-configurable standpoint. But its a great idea so I'll > > put it on the feature tracker. Hmm... that could make a good separate > > library on its own. I may have to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Bonhote\_Andre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Bonhote\_Andre](https://rubytalk.org/u/Bonhote_Andre)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 07:05 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/9 "2007-01-16T07:05:54Z")
Hi > > > keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > > > > > > [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > > > > > Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > > secure password storage and password generation. > > > > Nice, but it looks terrible on my whiteish terminal. Is there an easy > > way to change the colors? > > If you can wait a week or so I can find some time to make > userconfigurable colors available. Sure 🙂 I have set my Terminal.app to white on black for the time being. > In the meantime, all the colors are configured from the file > lib/keybox/term\_io.rb. You could change the color in there, just change > the values on the value side of the COLORS hash and probably make the > default to not be bold in the 'colorize' method. Yeah, found that one. > I'm just please that people find it useful enough to tell me whats > missing so I can make it better :-). I do. I'm transferring all the passes from my pgp-encrypted file to keybox right now. Two other feature requests: - Put a timestamp to each entry, maybe even editable. Like this, you could filter out old and possibly outdated passwords - Offer a way to find duplicates Thanks! André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: andre.bonhote@colt.net > **[Colt Technology Services | Managed Network & Voice Services Provider](https://www.colt.net/)** > > Colt provides world-class global network and voice services: optical, ethernet, cloud, cybersecurity, capital markets, business internet & VPN, and voice. Data | Voice | Managed Services [PGP.sig](https://rubytalk.org/uploads/short-url/735vhVn5WxbZ9XZg7Twj4pmfFsx.sig) (194 Bytes) > **···** > > On 16.01.2007, at 03:46, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:45:48PM +0900, Bonh?te Andr? wrote: > > > > > On 15.01.2007, at 04:15, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Hinegardner)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 02:59 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/10 "2007-01-16T02:59:38Z")
I don't know why I didn't think of that. Sounds good, I should probably do it. You can probably expect another release of keybox after next weekend then. enjoy, -jeremy > **···** > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 03:25:43AM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > > > On 1/15/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > \>On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:17:01PM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > > \>\> On 1/14/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > \>\> \>keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > > \>\> \> > > \>\> \> [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > \>\> \> > > \>\> \>Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > \>\> \>secure password storage and password generation. > > \>\> > > \>\> Neat. you may want to look at Highline for OS independent password entry. > > \>\> > > \> > > \>I considered using Highline and even looked at how it handled stty > > \>for inspiration. But one of the goals I wanted for this was to not > > \>depend on any gems so that it could be installed on USB drives or other > > \>portable storage device. And so its only requirement for daily usage > > \>would be ruby. > > > > Just vendor HighLine with your tool. It's only like, 3 or 4 files, > > and since we've got it pretty well stabilized it should be solid and > > not need to be updated any time soon... > > # -- > > Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy@hinegardner.org ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Brown1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greg\_Brown1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Greg_Brown1)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 03:20 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/11 "2007-01-16T03:20:16Z")
Oh, i didn't quite understand the question. You should definitely use Highline for coloring, unless you have needs it does not cover. I don't know how James would feel, but honestly, I think it'd be a great idea to introduce a 'color profile' configuration you can load into HighLine that'd allow for you to set names like: Highline.color\_profile do |c|   c.main\_color "cyan"   c.alert\_color "red" end # or maybe Highline.color\_profile("colors.yaml") So if you're in a library writing mood, maybe you can just give us a patch that does that? 🙂 I imagine this would be super easy to implement, and would be great for letting users easily tweak their configs. > **···** > > On 1/15/07, Gregory Brown \ wrote: > > > On 1/15/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > \> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:45:48PM +0900, Bonh?te Andr? wrote: > > \> \> Hi! > > \> \> > > \> \> On 15.01.2007, at 04:15, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > > \> \> > > \> \> \>keybox version 1.0.0 has been released. > > \> \> \> > > \> \> \> [http://keybox.rubyforge.org](http://keybox.rubyforge.org) > > \> \> \> > > \> \> \>Keybox is a set of command line applications and ruby libraries for > > \> \> \>secure password storage and password generation. > > \> \> > > \> \> Nice, but it looks terrible on my whiteish terminal. Is there an easy > > \> \> way to change the colors? > > \> > > \> Not from a user-configurable standpoint. But its a great idea so I'll > > \> put it on the feature tracker. Hmm... that could make a good separate > > \> library on its own. I may have to do that. > > > > You don't have to 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Hinegardner)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 07:48 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/12 "2007-01-16T07:48:23Z")
> \>I'm just please that people find it useful enough to tell me whats > \>missing so I can make it better :-). > > I do. I'm transferring all the passes from my pgp-encrypted file to > keybox right now. Yeah, a convert!. Are you able to take advantage of --import-from-csv ? > Two other feature requests: > - Put a timestamp to each entry, maybe even editable. Like this, you > could filter out old and possibly outdated passwords The underlying data storage already records the creation, modification and access times of every record, I'm just not printing that information out right now. A future enhancement would be to allow for warnings of expiring passwords or notification that some password may not be used any more, etc. > - Offer a way to find duplicates Good suggestions, I don't think I can promise these quite yet. But I'll put them on the list. enjoy, -jeremy > **···** > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:05:54PM +0900, Bonh?te Andr? wrote: > > # -- > > Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy@hinegardner.org ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Hinegardner)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 05:27 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/13 "2007-01-16T05:27:22Z")
Yeah, something along those lines. I'll give it some thought and see what I can come up with and contribute it to Highline. The application colour profile, registers "types" of color, main, alert, warning etc and then those can be overwritten by a user by loading a different profile or something along those lines. I'm in the library writing mood. Let me see what pops out. Good suggestions all around. enjoy, -jeremy > **···** > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:20:16PM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > > > On 1/15/07, Gregory Brown \ wrote: > > > > Oh, i didn't quite understand the question. You should definitely use > > Highline for coloring, unless you have needs it does not cover. I > > don't know how James would feel, but honestly, I think it'd be a great > > idea to introduce a 'color profile' configuration you can load into > > HighLine that'd allow for you to set names like: > > > > Highline.color\_profile do |c| > > c.main\_color "cyan" > > c.alert\_color "red" > > end > > > > # or maybe > > > > Highline.color\_profile("colors.yaml") > > > > So if you're in a library writing mood, maybe you can just give us a > > patch that does that? 🙂 > > I imagine this would be super easy to implement, and would be great > > for letting users easily tweak their configs. > > # -- > > Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy@hinegardner.org ---
**Author:** ![Bonhote\_Andre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Bonhote\_Andre](https://rubytalk.org/u/Bonhote_Andre)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 07:59 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/14 "2007-01-16T07:59:21Z")
> > > I'm just please that people find it useful enough to tell me whats > > > missing so I can make it better :-). > > > > I do. I'm transferring all the passes from my pgp-encrypted file to > > keybox right now. > > Yeah, a convert!. Are you able to take advantage of --import-from-csv ? Sure. Works fine. > > - Offer a way to find duplicates > > Good suggestions, I don't think I can promise these quite yet. But I'll > put them on the list. No worries 🙂 CU! André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: andre.bonhote@colt.net > **[Colt Technology Services | Managed Network & Voice Services Provider](https://www.colt.net/)** > > Colt provides world-class global network and voice services: optical, ethernet, cloud, cybersecurity, capital markets, business internet & VPN, and voice. Data | Voice | Managed Services [PGP.sig](https://rubytalk.org/uploads/short-url/8OyLybETFHAJwhSoNqPvDa5y1ZL.sig) (194 Bytes) ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Brown1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greg\_Brown1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Greg_Brown1)\ **Post date:** [16 January 2007 05:46 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-keybox-1-0-0-released/34457/15 "2007-01-16T05:46:44Z")
Cool! If you'd like to submit a patch send it to james \ grayproductions \ net but CC me as well. (I'm a committer, but james has the final say on what goes in) Thanks! -greg > **···** > > On 1/16/07, Jeremy Hinegardner \ wrote: > > > I'm in the library writing mood. Let me see what pops out.