abcrypt-information(1)
NAME
abcrypt-information - provides information about the encryption parameters
DESCRIPTION
This command provides information about the encryption parameters from FILE. If FILE is not specified, data will be read from standard input.
The encryption parameters outputs either a human-readable string or JSON.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| The memory size in KiB |
| The number of iterations |
| The degree of parallelism |
The encryption parameters represents the same thing as the Argon2 parameters as defined in RFC 9106.
abcrypt info and abcrypt i are aliases for this command.
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
- FILE
Input file. If FILE is not specified, data will be read from standard input.
OPTIONS
- -j, --json
Output the encryption parameters as JSON. This option is available if the
jsonfeature is enabled at compile time.- -h, --help
Print help message. The short flag (-h) will print a condensed help message while the long flag (--help) will print a detailed help message.
- -V, --version
Print version number. The long flag (--version) will also print the copyright notice, the license notice and where to report bugs.
EXIT STATUS
- 0
Successful program execution.
- 1
An error occurred.
- 2
An error occurred while parsing command-line arguments.
Exit statuses other than these are defined by
<sysexits.h>.
EXAMPLES
- Print the encryption parameters:
$ abcrypt information data.txt.abcrypt
- Print the encryption parameters as JSON:
$ abcrypt information -j data.txt.abcrypt
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2022 Shun Sakai
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
This manual page is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.