tomweston / keypairGenerator

Keygen generates AES256 private and public key pairs and uploads the public key to a desired S3 bucket.

Golang SSH KeyPair Generator with S3 Backup

Keygen generates AES256 private and public key pairs and uploads the private key to a desired S3 bucket.

Usage

Required packages:

go get github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws

go get github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session

go get github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/s3

go get golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

Compile:

Windows: GOOS=windows GOARCH=386 go build -o keypair_generator.exe keypair_generator.go

Linux: GOOS=linux GOARCH=386 go build -o keypair_generator.exe keypair_generator.go

MacOS: GOOS=darwin GOARCH=386 go build -o keypair_generator.exe keypair_generator.go

Important:

Set Authentication

export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=eu-west-2

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=ABCDEF

export AWS_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY=Zzxx

Set Target

export S3_BUCKET=bucketname

Set Desired Key Name

export PRIKEY=keyname

export PUBKEY=keyname.pub