PASS + GnuPG + Git

Your top secret password manager

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As a developer, I have countless passwords to manage. Okay, not only password, but tons of secrets, tokens as such also.

I am going to share what I learnt from the video below and my practice.

Preparation

First of the first, install pass, gnupg, and git.

Procedure

Generate gpg keys

❯ gpg --quick-generate-key crest.boy@gmail.com
About to create a key for:
    "crest.boy@gmail.com"

Continue? (Y/n) Y

If you are also one terminal guy, you will see below prompt to ask you to enter password for your new key. Otherwise, what you see will be a GUI dialog but similar.

The subsequent output of the command looks like below

We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other…