Introduction

rops aims to make the process of handling sensitive credentials a bit more refined than simply encrypting an entire config file. It does this by allowing the encryption of sensitive values only, whilst making sure that other parts can’t be changed with malicious intent. One example use case is the remote hosting of version controlled rops-files with meaningful diff outputs. The SOPS project, (which rops can be seen as Rust rewrite of), contains an excellent motivation section in its README for those interested in further reading materials.

The goals chapter of this book points out some expected differences between these two projects, and the concepts chapter takes a deeper dive into how rops operates. Those two chapters should serve both library and CLI users well. Remaining chapters primarily target the latter group. Library usage instructions are instead located at docs.rs.

rops the library, the CLI application, and its documentation is free and open source under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. The code can be found on GitHub where issues and feature requests may also be posted. Please follow the project’s Security Policy if you encounter any vulnerability. All contributions are warmly welcomed, but make sure to read the Contributing Guidelines before opening a pull request. Feel free, however, to simply use the “Suggest an edit” button in the top right corner if you encounter any documentation errors along the way 😊