why i built it
i kept switching operating systems and collaborating on projects where moving environment secrets was awkward. i wanted a terminal-first way to share them without pasting values into chat or opening another service.
how it works
envelope combines symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. it encrypts the secrets and their key separately, then packages the encrypted files so they can travel with the codebase without exposing the original values.
built with
node.js, typescript, commander, and chalk.