Windows binary

[sergeevabc]

Dear @keisentraut, Windows 7 x64 user here. Could you be so kind to generate .exe for the rest of us who are ordinary users without compilers?

[sergeevabc]

Err… Hello?

[keisentraut]

Sorry for the late reply, this is just some hobby project. Here is your executable: https://github.com/keisentraut/age-keygen-deterministic/releases/tag/v0.4 Not sure if it will work, I don't have Windows.

[sergeevabc]

$ age-keygen-deterministic.exe
thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:65:71:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 6, kind: Uncategorized, message: "The handle is invalid." }
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

$ age-keygen-deterministic.exe --help
age-keygen-deterministic 0.3
Klaus Eisentraut
Tool for deterministic age key generation from passphrase.

USAGE:
    age-keygen-deterministic.exe [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -c, --count <count>      optional number of secret keys which should be created [default: 1]
    -o, --offset <offset>    optional u64 offset for index of keys [default: 0]

@keisentraut, as you can see, the program works in a peculiar way, but I don't understand how to generate the key.

[keisentraut]

If you run it in cmd.exe then this program should ask you interactively for a password. However, it seems you did this and it panic-ed in the function call to rpassword::prompt_for_password. I don't know why and to be honest, I don't care and as I said I cannot test it, too. Try downloading rust/cargo for Windows for yourself, cross-compilation from Linux for Windows might be the issue but it could also be that the rpassword crate has some bug. You are on your own, but feel free to submit a patch once you figure it out.

[sergeevabc]

Sorry, I'm an ordinary user, not a developer. I'm afraid if I start compiling the code, something will go wrong. Surely you have more experience in that field than I do. But it seems like you never intended to create a solution for a wider audience that is increasingly in need of digital security. Thank you for the clarification, Klaus.