Please note, irmatool is UNMAINTAINED! The Privacy by Design foundation has created much more advanced tooling, see for example irmago.

irmatool

irmatool is a CLI tool providing various convenient IRMA utilities. For this it uses Gabi, a Go implementation of IRMA's cryptographic primitives.

Supported and planned utilities:

• Key generation
• Key check
• Basic issuance of credentials

Ideas for additional functionality? File an issue.

Installation

Binaries will be provided in the future, but for now, install through go get:

go get -u github.com/mhe/irmatool

Usage

For information on how to use irmatool, issue the help command:

irmatool help

This will output something like:

irmatool is a CLI tool providing various convenient IRMA utilities.

Usage:
  irmatool [command]

Available Commands:
  genkeypair  Generate an IRMA Issuer keypair.

Flags:
      --config string   config file (default is $HOME/.irmatool.toml)
  -t, --toggle          Help message for toggle

Use "irmatool [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Example

Example invocation that generates a 1024 bit key pair that is valid for 6 months and 6 attributes. By default irmatool writes the private and public keys to isk.xml and ipk.xml respectively.

go run main.go genkeypair -l 1024 -a 6 -v 8M