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* Fix(secrets/nheko): Add apzuSoispha2023-05-09
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* Style(treewide): FormatSoispha2023-04-09
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* Fix(secrets): Secrets now workene2023-04-09
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* Feat: Add encryption through agenixene2023-02-18
There are other alternatives: * [This blog post about NixOs secret encryption](https://xeiaso.net/blog/nixos-encrypted-secrets-2021-01-20) * Directly to agenix: * A [rewrite in rust](https://github.com/yaxitech/ragenix) * A dead (?) [rewrite in rust](https://github.com/cole-h/agenix-cli) * An implementation of Sops for nix: [Sops-nix](https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix) * See the [NixOs wiki entry](https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Comparison_of_secret_managing_schemes) for further options. Reasons for agenix: I mostly just ruled other options out, until this was the only real thing: * The blog post was created in a time, where tools like agenix where not available, and it (very simplified) just shows, how to implement a basic version of agenix * The rewrite are both in itself interesting, but lack community support, this is however subject to change, and thus a migration to a rewrite might be feasible in the future. * Sops seems like a really nice thing, with support for nearly all relevant encryption options, but the documentation for sops-nix seems rather lack-luster for me, so I decided to stay with agenix, especially because I should not need the extra encryption options. * And lastly most of the option on the wiki page need excessive manual intervention on every reboot (maybe because the were written with servers in mind), but I would like to be able to deploy once and then never have to think about secret management. So you see, I mostly just used what seemed to be the easiest for my situation right now, and agenix works rather well. If there weren't one big downside, I would really like it: Encrypting a file with age — which is what agenix uses under the hood — requires a key, which in the case of agenix is the public ssh key. Being asymmetric encryption, the decryption requires the private key, which is in my case stored in an ssh-agent, feed directly from KeepassXC. And this is where the problem lives, I want to be able to decrypt the secrets (obviously), and this only works if I copy the private key to a file, which, whilst being a manual process, completely breaks the point behind using an ssh-agent with KeepassXC integration in the first place. There are however open Issues on both the rage an agenix issue trackers, so the hope of fixing this is still there.