tldr/pages/common/age-keygen.md

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age-keygen

Generate age key pairs. See age for how to encrypt/decrypt files. More information: https://manned.org/age-keygen.

  • Generate a key pair, save it to an unencrypted file and print the public key to stdout:

age-keygen --output {{path/to/file}}

  • Convert an identity to a recipient and print the public key to stdout:

age-keygen -y {{path/to/file}}