[[!meta title="Keyringer: encrypted and distributed secret sharing software"]]
-Keyringer lets you manage and share secrets using GPG and git in a distributed
-fashion. It has custom commands to encrypt, decrypt, recrypt, create key pairs,
-etc.
+Keyringer lets you manage and share secrets using GPG and git with custom
+commands to encrypt, decrypt, recrypt, create key pairs, etc.
- Project page: [https://keyringer.sarava.org](https://keyringer.sarava.org)
- Issue tracker: [https://keyringer.sarava.org/trac](https://keyringer.sarava.org/trac)
git clone git://git.sarava.org/keyringer.git
-And then leave it somewhere, optionally adding it to your $PATH environment variable.
-You can also package it to your preferred distro.
+And then leave it somewhere, optionally adding it to your `$PATH` environment variable
+or package it to your preferred distro.
Creating a keyringer repository
-------------------------------
The first step is to setup a keyring.
Keyringer supports management of multiple isolated keyrings. To start
-a new keyring (or register an existing one with your config file),
-run:
+a new keyring (or register an existing one with your config file), run:
keyringer <keyring> init <path> [remote]
keyringer friends init $HOME/keyrings/friends
-will create an alias "friends" pointing to `$HOME/keyrings/friends`. Call all
-other keyring actions using this alias.
+will create an alias "friends" pointing to `$HOME/keyrings/friends`. All
+other keyring actions should be called using this alias.
If there is an existing remote keyring git repository and you just
want to checkout it, use