mailock

A command-line utility to send encrypted emails via SMTP with OpenPGP.js.

mailock is a simple command-line utility that lets you encrypt and decrypt your files, sign and verify your messages, and send out content securely through SMTP using the Nodemailer library. Taking advantage of Node.js's great cross-platform support, this project aims to make use of these libraries and making standard PGP encryption services available in one package.

Installation

npm install -g mailock

Key Pair generation

Generate your private and public keys.

mailock --keygen

Encryption

mailock encrypt [e-mail] plaintextFile

Decryption

mailock decrypt [e-mail] encryptedMessage

Message authentication and integrity checking

Sign your message

mailock sign [e-mail] messagefile

Verify signature

mailock verify [e-mail] message

Returns true if signature validation is successful.

Third party libraries

All of the project's file security methods are done using the OpenPGP.js library, and email service with Nodemailer.

For more information on how these libraries work, please check out their GitHub pages:

• OpenPGP.js
• Nodemailer