Generate or delete a keypair for encrypting small data to send to
the DIDE cluster. This can be used to encrypt environment
variables, and possibly other workflows in future involving
relatively small amounts of data. By default, if you have ever
created a keypair we do not replace it if it already exists,
unless you set update = TRUE so you may call this function
safely to ensure that you do have a keypair set up.
Usage
dide_generate_keypair(update = FALSE)
dide_delete_keypair()
Arguments
- update
Replace the existing keypair. You will need to use
this if you accidentally remove the .hipercow/ directory from
your network home share, or if you want to renew your key.
Value
Nothing, called for its side effect
Warning
If you run dide_delete_keypair() then your keys are deleted
(naturally), but this means that any data encrypted with these
keys will be impossible to read. Usually this is what you want,
but be warned there is no going back and no confirmation prompt.
Examples
if (FALSE) {
# Generate a new keypair, if one does not exist
dide_generate_keypair()
}
