tldr/pages/common/age-keygen.md

age-keygen

Generate age key pairs. See also: age, age-inspect. More information: https://manned.org/age-keygen.

• Generate a key pair, save it to an unencrypted file, and print the public key to stdout:

age-keygen {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file}}

• Generate a post-quantum key pair, save it to an unencrypted file, and print the public key to stdout:

age-keygen -pq {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file}}

• Convert an identit[y] to a recipient and print the public key to stdout:

age-keygen -y {{path/to/file}}