Graveyard

Graveyard is inspired by Tomb as it provides a simple way to encrypt files. Although, with a few key differences:

It is written in Go, meaning it compiles to a single binary.
It's built on top of archives, this means there is no need for elevated permissions.
"Graves," are managed by Graveyard, as opposed to being untracked files.

Note

Graveyard is considered to be feature-complete, feature pull requests may not be merged.

What was wrong with Tomb?

Now, there wasn't anything inherently wrong with Tomb. Although, I had a few personal gripes with it, including:

Being written in a scripting language it felt slow.
It requires sudo to be installed, supposedly there was doas support — but it didn't seem to work for me.
It doesn't track files, this means that it could get messy (or sacrifice convenience) at scale.

If you feel the same way about any of these issues give Graveyard a try, but if you don't think that any of these aren't a big deal for you then give Tomb a try.

What are the goals of Graveyard?

Graveyard has one goal: Encrypt files securely. It does not try to provide a way to send, sync, or back them up, granted all graves are stored in one directory — so backups should be pretty simple.

How secure is Graveyard?

Just like Tomb, Graveyard is not a moving-parts application, so (hopefully) pretty secure. Although, don't take my word for it (I'm biased) read the source code and figure out what everything is doing.

How do I install Graveyard?

From GitHub Releases

Download the binary using curl, and then install it using install:

curl -LO https://github.com/BetaPictoris/graveyard/releases/latest/download/grave
sudo install -Dt /usr/local/bin -m 755 grave

Optionally, if you don't have root permissions, you can install it to your user account:

install -Dt ~/.local/bin -m 755 grave

From Source

You'll need a recent version of Go(lang), I tested and developed using 1.21. To install Go on Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -Syu go

Or on Debian, and Ubuntu:

sudo apt install golang-go

Alternatively, you can download and install it directly from Go's website. Then to build and install:

git clone https://github.com/BetaPictoris/graveyard.git
cd graveyard
sudo make install

or to install to your user account:

make usrinstall

Usage

After installation you should have the grave command:

NAME:
   grave - Dead simple encryption

USAGE:
   grave [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

AUTHOR:
   Daniel Hall <beta@hai.haus>

COMMANDS:
   dig, new      Create a new grave
   exhume, open  Open a buried grave
   bury, close   Bury an open grave
   ls, list      List all graves
   ps, obituary  List all open graves
   help, h       Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --help, -h  show help

betapictoris / graveyard