Nice Age Key Generator

A tool for generating age encryption keys with nice-looking patterns.

Features

• Generates age secret keys that have specific patterns of repeating characters
• Configurable repeat count
• Provides both a library and a command-line tool

Usage

Command-line

# Generate a key with 4 consecutive repeating characters
nice-key-gen

# Generate a key with 3 consecutive repeating characters
nice-key-gen --repeat-count 3

Library

use nice_key_gen::{generate_nice_key, get_public_key, PatternConfig};

// Create a custom pattern configuration
let config = PatternConfig {
    repeat_count: 5,
};

// Generate a key matching the pattern
let identity = generate_nice_key(&config)?;
println!("Secret key: {}", identity);
println!("Public key: {}", get_public_key(&identity));

How it works

The tool repeatedly generates random age keys until it finds one with a pattern of repeating characters directly after the "AGE-SECRET-KEY-1" prefix. Any character can be the repeating character - the tool finds keys where the first N characters after the prefix are all the same.

Web Interface

This project also includes a web interface that allows you to generate nice-looking age keys directly in your browser using WebAssembly.

Features

• Generate age encryption keys with pretty patterns
• Customize the number of consecutive repeating characters to search for
• Copy generated keys to clipboard
• 100% client-side processing (keys never leave your browser)

Running the Web Interface

1. Make sure you have wasm-pack installed:

   cargo install wasm-pack
   

2. Navigate to the web directory and start the development server:

   cd web
   npm install
   npm start
   

3. Open your browser to the URL shown in the console (usually http://localhost:5173)

Building for Production

To build the web interface for production:

cd web
npm install
wasm-pack build --target web --out-name nice_key_gen --out-dir pkg
npm run build

The production build will be available in the web/dist directory.