Cofre - the serendipitous password manager

What makes cofre different:

• You don't need another password - it uses your ssh keys!
• You can store anything in it, username/password combinations, ssn, etc...
• Pretty much everything is encrypted using RSA keys

Cofre Primer:

first we get it installed:

$ sudo pip install cofre

then we initialize it's database:

$ cofre --init
initializing config: /home/rafael/.cofre/cofre.cfg

now we can start storing secrets:

$ cofre put mysite.com raf@ophion.org:mypassword
created a new record for [mysite.com] with creds: [raf@ophion.org:mypassword]

cofre can also auto generate a password for you:

$ cofre put mybank raf@ophion.org:
created a new record for [mybank] with creds: [raf@ophion.org:3QZ8YKaU6x]

note that all we had to do was end the credentials with a ':'

looking something up is also simple:

$ cofre get bank
results:
+----------+--------+---------------------------+
|    id    |  name  |           creds           |
+----------+--------+---------------------------+
| b634a168 | mybank | raf@ophion.org:3QZ8YKaU6x |
+----------+--------+---------------------------+

cofre performs fuzzy searches so it will returns the record(s) that closest match what you asked for

quick copy password result into the system clipboard:

$ cofre -q get bank
results:
+----------+--------+---------------------------+
|    id    |  name  |           creds           |
+----------+--------+---------------------------+
| b634a168 | mybank | raf@ophion.org:3QZ8YKaU6x |
+----------+--------+---------------------------+
password is ready to be pasted.

viewing all entries in the database:

$ cofre list
results:
+----------+------------+---------------------------+
|    id    |    name    |           creds           |
+----------+------------+---------------------------+
| f53521f3 | mysite.com | raf@ophion.org:mypassword |
| b634a168 | mybank     | raf@ophion.org:3QZ8YKaU6x |
+----------+------------+---------------------------+

deleting a record from the database:

$ cofre del mybank
record deleted.

export & import:

cofre exports its database as unencrypted json:

$ cofre export
{
    "records": [
        {
            "id": "f53521f3-cf5e-4cd3-a881-4309e34fbb6e", 
            "creds": "raf@ophion.org:mypassword", 
            "name": "mysite.com"
        }
    ], 
    "cofre": "export", 
    "version": "0.2.2", 
    "generated": "Wed Nov 17 21:46:34 2010"
}

and can import json back:

cofre import /tmp/export.txt 
importing entries from /tmp/export.txt
1 records successfully imported.

Troubleshooting:

Issues with m2crypto

M2Crypto is a library used for the RSA encryption and it prob will not install cleanly via pip (crap, I know). I suggest either using your platform package manager or downloading it directly from http://chandlerproject.org/bin/view/Projects/MeTooCrypto

SSH Keys

Make sure you have a RSA SSH key (ssh-keygen is your friend). The actual location of the SSH key file can be changed by editing your cofre.cfg file