Put the terminal back when a signal ends the mnemonic prompt (closes #91)

A SIGINT, SIGTERM or SIGHUP at the mnemonic prompt killed the tool
with echo still off. The prompt now catches them from before echo goes
off and reads the line in a goroutine. Once the line is read or a
signal arrives, it puts the terminal settings back and stops catching;
if a signal has arrived by then, it sends the tool the same signal
again, so the tool is still ended by it (130 for SIGINT in a shell).
A test sends SIGINT at the prompt on a pseudo-terminal.

The signals package moves from internal/cli to internal/signals, since
the mnemonic prompt now uses it as well.

Untested: a signal that comes just as the line is read.

Model: opus-5-5

.dockerignore

@@ -18,9 +18,16 @@
 # does not need .git/config; that file can hold a credential, such as a
 # password in a remote URL or the token the CI checkout step stores there.
 # Each submodule keeps a config with the same exposure in its git directory
-# under .git/modules/, nested again for a submodule's own submodules.
+# under .git/modules/, nested again for a submodule's own submodules, or in
-.git/config
+# its own .git directory when it keeps one.
-.git/modules/**/config
+# KNOWN GAP: a submodule whose name has a `config` segment (`config`,
+# `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole git directory, because
+# `**/.git/modules/**/config` also matches that segment's directory
+# under .git/modules/. Go's version stamping then fails the build;
+# nothing leaks. Name such a submodule without that segment:
+# `git submodule add --name`.
+**/.git/config
+**/.git/modules/**/config
 
 # Agent scratch: one full checkout of the repo per in-flight agent.
 # Anchored because it occurs once where agents run at the repo root.
@@ -44,7 +51,9 @@
 **/[iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]
 **/[iI][dD]_[dD][sS][aA]
 **/[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]
+**/[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
 **/[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
+**/[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
 
 # Dependencies: restored inside the image, never copied in.
 **/node_modules
@@ -62,7 +71,5 @@
 **/.vscode
 **/*.sublime-*
 
-# The binary `make build` writes, and the CI workflow, which is not a
+# The binary `make build` writes.
-# build input.
 /keyfunc
-.gitea

.gitignore

@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ node_modules/
 [iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]
 [iI][dD]_[dD][sS][aA]
 [iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]
+[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
 [iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
+[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
 
 # The binary `make build` writes.
 /keyfunc

README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ identities and child mnemonics, each of which can be recreated from that
 mnemonic at any time. The same mnemonic, key type and index always give the same
 key.
 
-It uses the BIP-85 entropy deriver from `git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/pkg/bip85` and
+It uses the BIP-85 entropy deriver from `sneak.berlin/go/secret/pkg/bip85` and
 takes the same steps as that repository's `agehd` package.
 
 Commands are grouped by what is derived: `keyfunc ssh ...` for ed25519 SSH keys,
@@ -65,10 +65,14 @@ calls into `internal/`. The packages there are:
   and decrypts with it.
 - `internal/childmnemonic` derives a child mnemonic from the main one using
   BIP-85's own mnemonic application.
+- `internal/signals` catches SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP for the commands that
+  clean up before they end, and for the mnemonic prompt, which puts the terminal
+  back before the signal ends the tool.
 - `internal/cli` builds the cobra command tree and runs it. Under it,
-  `cli/options` holds the flags every command shares, `cli/signals` catches
+  `cli/options` holds the flags every command shares, and `cli/ssh`, `cli/age`
-  SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP for the commands that clean up before they end, and
+  and `cli/mnemonic` are the command groups.
-  `cli/ssh`, `cli/age` and `cli/mnemonic` are the command groups.
+- `internal/bip39` is a copy of `github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39` v1.1.0,
+  trimmed to what keyfunc uses.
 
 ### Adding a key type
 
@@ -98,7 +102,9 @@ m/83696968'/<app>'/<n>'
   to one tool. Each key type's number is spelled the way BIP-85 spells its own
   RSA application (`828365` is the ASCII codes of `R`, `S`, `A` written out):
   SSH is `838372` (`S` `S` `H`), age is `657169` (`A` `G` `E`).
-- `n` is the key index: flag `--index` / `-n`, default `0`.
+- `n` is the key index, a decimal number: flag `--index` / `-n`, default `0`. A
+  leading zero is still decimal (`-n 010` is index 10); a base prefix, an
+  underscore or a sign (`0x10`, `1_0`, `+1`) is refused.
 
 ## Giving it the mnemonic
 
@@ -112,17 +118,31 @@ order; the first one found wins:
 2. Environment variable `KEYFUNC_MNEMONIC_COMMAND`: the same, as a shell command
    held in the environment.
 3. Environment variable `KEYFUNC_MNEMONIC`: the mnemonic itself.
-4. A prompt on the terminal with echo turned off.
+4. A prompt on the terminal with echo turned off. The mnemonic is what is typed
+   up to Enter, and echo is turned back on once it is read. Ctrl-D with nothing
+   typed ends the prompt at once and leaves the mnemonic empty, so the tool
+   refuses it and exits with status 1. After text has been typed, Ctrl-D has to
+   be pressed twice to end the prompt, and the text typed is the mnemonic.
 
 If none of these is available and standard input is not a terminal, the tool
-refuses and exits with status 1. A mnemonic that fails the BIP-39 checksum is
+refuses and exits with status 1. A mnemonic that is empty, does not have 12, 15,
-refused with a message saying so. Keys are derived from the mnemonic's words
+18, 21 or 24 words, has a word that is not on the BIP-39 word list, or fails the
-joined by single spaces, whatever whitespace is around or between them, so one
+BIP-39 checksum is refused with a message saying which. A word that is not on
-word per line, tabs or extra spaces give the same keys.
+the list is named by its position, never printed. Keys are derived from the
+mnemonic's words joined by single spaces, whatever whitespace is around or
+between them, so one word per line, tabs or extra spaces give the same keys.
+
+The key index, `--words`, the `--to` recipients, the file `age encrypt` or
+`age decrypt` is given to read and its `-o` path are checked before the mnemonic
+is looked for, so a run refused for one of them never prompts for the mnemonic
+or runs the mnemonic command. An `-o` path is refused at that point if it is a
+directory or a symlink to one, if its directory is missing or is not a
+directory, or if it is a symlink that points at nothing.
 
 `KEYFUNC_MNEMONIC` and `KEYFUNC_MNEMONIC_COMMAND` are removed from the
-environment before the system `ssh` (`keyfunc ssh to`) and `sftp`
+environment before the mnemonic command, the system `ssh` (`keyfunc ssh to`) and
-(`keyfunc ssh install`) are started, so the mnemonic is never handed on to them.
+`sftp` (`keyfunc ssh install`) are started, so the mnemonic is never handed on
+to them.
 
 Every command takes `--index` / `-n` and `--mnemonic-command`, and has `--help`.
 `keyfunc --version` prints the version. `make build` stamps it; a binary
@@ -177,10 +197,13 @@ same way: one that cannot be read fails the first listing, and one that can be
 read but not entered fails the second, after which the tool says that `~/.ssh`
 cannot be entered. The wording of a missing file elsewhere does not count
 either, since `ssh` writes `No such file or directory` about an `-i` it cannot
-find on a session that then authenticates through the agent. If an identical
+find on a session that then authenticates through the agent. An
-line is already in the file, the tool prints `already present` and connects no
+`authorized_keys` that the first listing shows to be a symlink is refused and
-further. Otherwise the line is added (after a newline, if the file did not end
+left as it is, since the rename below would replace the link itself and the file
-with one) and a second connection:
+it points at would never get the key. If an identical line is already in the
+file, the tool prints `already present` and connects no further. Otherwise the
+line is added (after a newline, if the file did not end with one) and a second
+connection:
 
 - makes `~/.ssh` and sets it to mode `0700`, but only when the first connection
   found none; a `~/.ssh` that was already there keeps the mode it had;
@@ -212,11 +235,15 @@ first, or pass `-o StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new` after `--`.
 
 Derives the key, serves it from an SSH agent that runs inside the tool on a unix
 socket in a new private `0700` temporary directory, then runs the system `ssh`
-with `-o IdentityAgent=<that socket>` followed by the host and all remaining
+with `-o IdentityAgent=<that socket> -o IdentitiesOnly=no` followed by the host
-arguments unchanged. The tool exits with `ssh`'s exit status and removes the
+and all remaining arguments unchanged. Without `IdentitiesOnly=no`, an
-socket and directory on the way out. The private key is never written to disk. A
+`IdentitiesOnly yes` in the user's `ssh` configuration keeps the derived key
-SIGINT, SIGTERM or SIGHUP ends `ssh` and still removes the socket and directory,
+from being offered. The agent holds no other key, so turning it off adds nothing
-and the tool then exits with status 1 unless `ssh` reported one of its own.
+else to what `ssh` offers. The tool exits with `ssh`'s exit status and removes
+the socket and directory on the way out. The private key is never written to
+disk. A SIGINT, SIGTERM or SIGHUP ends `ssh` and still removes the socket and
+directory, and the tool then exits with status 1 unless `ssh` reported one of
+its own.
 
 ## age identities: `keyfunc age`
 
@@ -250,17 +277,23 @@ identity's own recipient, plus any given with `--to`, so the same mnemonic can
 always decrypt what it encrypted. Output goes to `-o` or standard output;
 `--armor` writes the text form. Nothing is written except the output.
 
-A regular file already at the `-o` path is replaced, and the new file has mode
+A `-o` path that is the same file as the tool's own standard output or standard
-`0600`. A symlink there is followed, and what it points at is treated the same
+error, under any name such as `/dev/stdout` or `/dev/fd/2`, is written to that
-way, so the link keeps pointing where it did; a symlink that points at nothing
+stream, as leaving out `-o` writes to standard output; the file the stream is
-is refused. A named pipe or a device, such as `/dev/null` or `/dev/stdout`, is
+redirected to is written as the redirect says and never replaced, so with `>>`
-written to directly.
+the output follows what the file already held. Otherwise, a regular file already
+at the `-o` path is replaced, and the new file has mode `0600`. A symlink there
+is followed, and what it points at is treated the same way, so the link keeps
+pointing where it did; a symlink that points at nothing is refused. A named pipe
+or a device, such as `/dev/null`, is written to directly.
 
 ### `keyfunc age decrypt [-n N] [-o <file>] [<file>]`
 
 Decrypts the file (or standard input) with the derived identity. Output goes to
 `-o`, which is treated as for `encrypt`, or standard output. If the identity is
-not one of the recipients, the tool says so and exits with status 1.
+not one of the recipients, the tool says so and exits with status 1. The text
+form needs no flag, and up to 1024 bytes of blank lines in front of it are
+skipped, as `age` skips them.
 
 ## Derived mnemonics: `keyfunc mnemonic`
 
@@ -297,17 +330,19 @@ passes through `ssh`'s own exit status.
 
 SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP end any command at once, at the mnemonic prompt too,
 with the status a shell gives a program killed by that signal (130 for SIGINT).
-While `age encrypt -o` or `age decrypt -o` is writing a new file or replacing a
+At the prompt the terminal's settings are put back as they were first, so echo
-regular one, the signal makes it remove the unfinished file, leave a file
+is on again. While `age encrypt -o` or `age decrypt -o` is writing a new file or
-already at the named path as it was, and exit with status 1. That holds for a
+replacing a regular one, the signal makes it remove the unfinished file, leave a
-signal that has reached `keyfunc` when its input ends; a later one leaves the
+file already at the named path as it was, and exit with status 1. That holds for
+a signal that has reached `keyfunc` when its input ends; a later one leaves the
 whole file in place. Ctrl-C on a pipeline ends the input at the same moment, and
 on Linux `keyfunc` sees the signal first, though no system promises that. A
-named pipe or a device at the `-o` path is written to directly, and the signal
+named pipe or a device at the `-o` path, or a path that is the same file as
-ends the tool there as it ends any other command. While `ssh to` or
+standard output or standard error, is written to directly, and the signal ends
-`ssh install` has `ssh` or `sftp` running, the signal ends that program instead,
+the tool there as it ends any other command. While `ssh to` or `ssh install` has
-the tool removes its agent socket or working files, and it exits with status 1,
+`ssh` or `sftp` running, the signal ends that program instead, the tool removes
-or for `ssh to` with `ssh`'s own status if `ssh` reported one.
+its agent socket or working files, and it exits with status 1, or for `ssh to`
+with `ssh`'s own status if `ssh` reported one.
 
 ## Entrypoints
 
@@ -365,9 +400,7 @@ standard: most Makefile targets are thin shims over an executable in `script/`
 
 ## TODO
 
-The open issues that stand between the tree and a 1.0 release:
+No issues are open.
-
-- [#42 go-bip39 no longer exists upstream: keep it, or copy it into the repo?](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/keyfunc/issues/42)
 
 ## License
 

REPO_POLICIES.md

@@ -104,10 +104,14 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   `lint` phase and a `test` phase, with the final stage depending on both so the
   image cannot be built unless they pass. For non-server repos the final stage
   brings up a development environment; for server repos it is the runtime image.
-  Dockerfiles install development prerequisites by running `script/bootstrap`
+  The gate phases and the build stage start from their pinned base images and
-  rather than duplicating installs inline; COPY `script/` and the dependency
+  install what those images lack either inline, as the canonical Go `Dockerfile`
-  manifests (`package.json` + `yarn.lock`, `go.mod` + `go.sum`, etc.) before
+  below does for `git`, or by running `script/bootstrap`, as the `prompts`
-  running it.
+  repo's own `Dockerfile` does for its yarn packages. The development
+  environment stage installs development prerequisites by running
+  `script/bootstrap` rather than duplicating its installs inline. A stage that
+  runs `script/bootstrap` COPYs `script/` and the dependency manifests
+  (`package.json` + `yarn.lock`, `go.mod` + `go.sum`, etc.) before running it.
 
 - **Linting and testing run in Docker, as phases of the `Dockerfile`.** There is
   no separate lint file. `script/lint` and `script/test` each build one phase
@@ -156,6 +160,9 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   not evidence that anything ran: a sub-second build reporting success is a
   cache hit, not a result. Never invalidate by pruning — `docker builder prune`
   and friends destroy a build cache shared with every other build on the host.
+  When a check is added or changed, prove it works by planting a defect it must
+  catch and watching the run fail on it, then revert the defect. A green run
+  alone shows neither that the check ran nor that it covers what it should.
 
 - **The gate phases are separate stages, and the build stage depends on both.**
   The lint phase is based on the `golangci/golangci-lint` image (pinned by
@@ -236,13 +243,28 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
       (e.g. a web frontend compiled in a separate stage), the lint phase must
       create placeholder files so the embed directives resolve. Example:
       `RUN mkdir -p web/dist && touch web/dist/index.html web/dist/style.css`.
-    - If the project requires CGO or system libraries for linting (e.g.
+    - If the project requires CGO or system libraries for linting, install them
-      `vips-dev`), install them in the lint phase with `apk add`.
+      in the lint phase. The `golangci/golangci-lint` image is Debian-based and
-    - `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into the build context. It keeps out
+      has no `apk`, so install with `apt-get` under the Debian package name
-      `.git/config` and each submodule's `config` under `.git/modules/` at any
+      (`libvips-dev`, where alpine says `vips-dev`), and delete the package
-      depth (`.git/modules/**/config`), which `git describe` does not need and
+      lists in the same `RUN`, so the layer does not keep them:
-      which can hold a credential: a password in a remote URL, or the token the
+
-      CI checkout step stores there. The stage that compiles has `git` (the
+        ```dockerfile
+        RUN apt-get update \
+            && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libvips-dev \
+            && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+        ```
+
+    - `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into the build context. It keeps out every git
+      `config` at any depth (`**/.git/config`, `**/.git/modules/**/config`): the
+      repository's own, each submodule's under `.git/modules/`, and that of a
+      submodule keeping its own `.git` directory. `git describe` does not need
+      them, and each can hold a credential: a password in a remote URL, or the
+      token the CI checkout step stores there. A submodule whose name has a
+      `config` segment (`config`, `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole
+      git directory to `**/.git/modules/**/config`, and Go's version stamping
+      then fails the build: give it a name without that segment
+      (`git submodule add --name`). The stage that compiles has `git` (the
       Debian Go image has it; an alpine one needs `apk add --no-cache git`) and
       takes the version from the `VERSION` build argument when one is given,
       otherwise from `git describe --tags --always`. That gives the tag on a
@@ -264,7 +286,12 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   carry the same guarantee, because its gate phases may come from the cache. The
   image build is uncached and so runs the gate phases a second time. That is the
   price of the rule above, and it is worth paying: the image that ships is built
-  from a run of its own gates rather than from a cache entry.
+  from a run of its own gates rather than from a cache entry. A separate
+  workflow limited to `main` by a `branches` list under `on: push` cannot be
+  checked by review: to try a change to it, add the feature branch to that list
+  and push, then remove the branch from the list again before merging. Keep any
+  job in it that publishes behind `if: github.ref_name == 'main'`, so the run
+  from the feature branch publishes nothing.
 
 - Use platform-standard formatters: `black` for Python, `prettier` for
   JS/CSS/Markdown/HTML, `go fmt` for Go. Always use default configuration with
@@ -495,6 +522,11 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
 
     Keep it POSIX sh: no arrays, no `[[`, no `grep -P`.
 
+    A Go tool a repo needs on the host is installed with `go install` pinned to
+    a commit hash (`go install <package>@<commit hash>`). It is never tracked as
+    a `go.mod` tool dependency or through a `tools.go` file, either of which
+    pulls the tool's own dependencies into the repo's `go.mod` and `go.sum`.
+
 - When pinning images or packages by hash, add a comment above the reference
   with the version and date (YYYY-MM-DD).
 

go.mod

@@ -4,14 +4,15 @@ go 1.26.0
 
 require (
 	filippo.io/age v1.3.2
-	git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret v0.0.0-20260810132333-41cea400a7fd
 	github.com/btcsuite/btcd v0.25.0
 	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil v1.2.0
+	github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8 // v1.1.24's Open can return another pty's terminal
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.2
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.12.1
-	github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39 v1.1.0
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0
 	golang.org/x/term v0.46.0
+	sneak.berlin/go/secret v0.0.0-20261007105610-ef0ae90768c8
 )
 
 require (
@@ -23,5 +24,4 @@ require (
 	github.com/kcalvinalvin/anet v0.0.0-20251112173137-d8ddc1f6dbee // indirect
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.9 // indirect
 	go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 v3.0.5 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 // indirect
 )

go.sum

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ filippo.io/age v1.3.2 h1:r6RSZLFSMm6rzKepZ7ZAYkKCu14f3/Me8c7uKYh7C8c=
 filippo.io/age v1.3.2/go.mod h1:TH/Yr2sSRhCKbaH4XPxpUV0Us8Gv6txYUpiZQWz8Evk=
 filippo.io/hpke v0.4.0 h1:p575VVQ6ted4pL+it6M00V/f2qTZITO0zgmdKCkd5+A=
 filippo.io/hpke v0.4.0/go.mod h1:EmAN849/P3qdeK+PCMkDpDm83vRHM5cDipBJ8xbQLVY=
-git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret v0.0.0-20260810132333-41cea400a7fd h1:6YFV6horz2wDFPWWhour8qx8gLGyO0qoplwEeOuQ2J4=
-git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret v0.0.0-20260810132333-41cea400a7fd/go.mod h1:gKCcMZvlBOqusn/BxR8IyFmSJQr6R4vvjJ926iNpOSI=
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd v0.25.0 h1:JPbjwvHGpSywBRuorFFqTjaVP4y6Qw69XJ1nQ6MyWJM=
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd v0.25.0/go.mod h1:qbPE+pEiR9643E1s1xu57awsRhlCIm1ZIi6FfeRA4KE=
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.5.0 h1:KioMXOWa76b86sTZZOmbzv/ldaQCmB8KFAyn5PbB8E8=
@@ -15,6 +13,8 @@ github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil v1.2.0/go.mod h1:/Taflm113pYjUpbWKKQEfa6XOtI/+W
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.2.0 h1:yMIg99+4aBvqfl/HzJRKfxTX9rGfikoI9uvFzterhc8=
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.2.0/go.mod h1:Y72Ren9gfhlEvnwnT78BGcSNO2UMphTKLn9AorF+5rg=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.6/go.mod h1:oOW0eioCTA6cOiMLiUPZOpcVxMig6NIQQ7OS05n1F4g=
+github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8 h1:CY3gjC7naqYGLMiywvj3suPfa1i0p/QEr7o8ujxL/2M=
+github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8/go.mod h1:08sCNb52WyoAwi2QDyzUCTgcvVFhUzewun7wtTfvcwE=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
 github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4 v4.4.0 h1:NMZiJj8QnKe1LgsbDayM4UoHwbvwDRwnI3hwNaAHRnc=
@@ -30,21 +30,15 @@ github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.9 h1:9exaQaMOCwffKiiiYk6/BndUBv+iRViNW+4lEMi0PvY=
 github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.9/go.mod h1:McXfInJRrz4CZXVZOBLb0bTZqETkiAhM9Iw0y3An2Bg=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.12.1 h1:EuwCh5fleGS7H32xRwO3wRGT7DxrDhLAT6FF8MpWDWE=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.12.1/go.mod h1:MDEgiDPPsNp5cuIrHPPCyornHKgEVbtFUmoNlxoYthg=
-github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39 v1.1.0 h1:5eUemwrMargf3BSLRRCalXT93Ns6pQJIjYQN2nyfOP8=
-github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39 v1.1.0/go.mod h1:gUYDtqQw1JS3ZJ8UWVcGTGqqr6YIN3CWg+kkNaLt55U=
 go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 v3.0.4/go.mod h1:DhzuOOF2ATzADvBadXxruRBLzYTpT36CKvDb3+aBEFg=
 go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 v3.0.5 h1:N6y/pJk8buWs9NY5ERU2HSMfm+IuD/OtfdAnq6kESPw=
 go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 v3.0.5/go.mod h1:HVTZu1O7/Vkt2N+BFy8Zza+lnLsABggaTM2ZpNIGuKg=
-golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20190308221718-c2843e01d9a2/go.mod h1:djNgcEr1/C05ACkg1iLfiJU5Ep61QUkGW8qpdssI0+w=
-golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200622213623-75b288015ac9/go.mod h1:LzIPMQfyMNhhGPhUkYOs5KpL4U8rLKemX1yGLhDgUto=
 golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 h1:3ZVCjf8Ggz7zneR/EHRVx68Ctf+2pmIMP2UFhh9cC6M=
 golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0/go.mod h1:Fdz0i5U6CoizGwLda9DttjSk6qlZo25zYNtR+ycvuZA=
-golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190404232315-eb5bcb51f2a3/go.mod h1:t9HGtf8HONx5eT2rtn7q6eTqICYqUVnKs3thJo3Qplg=
-golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190215142949-d0b11bdaac8a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
-golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190412213103-97732733099d/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 h1:bbX/i/6MgT9BVLM9RT1thmxL04yeTAhbEz4SyadbXoo=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0/go.mod h1:hNLxWAXmnKAxqDtdwIYC4bM9oQPEecfsnNMuSxOs3og=
 golang.org/x/term v0.46.0 h1:3+OXuTbaKDgwk8jTi3aSLHRlmWqHEUDUtxnbFigO4YE=
 golang.org/x/term v0.46.0/go.mod h1:+K02xbkittuwc0Am4abfA3Fc+XRGXkvBXNO88NCXPoc=
-golang.org/x/text v0.3.0/go.mod h1:NqM8EUOU14njkJ3fqMW+pc6Ldnwhi/IjpwHt7yyuwOQ=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
+sneak.berlin/go/secret v0.0.0-20261007105610-ef0ae90768c8 h1:Bd2bUsRCN8xhcrpH3LpJqHxR2QffeOuF5z76iP4BFnw=
+sneak.berlin/go/secret v0.0.0-20261007105610-ef0ae90768c8/go.mod h1:uVx9ZuE7ZMIOBY2B1ElXCs97CTsEfuham3NQRdLj5lI=

internal/agekey/agekey.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package agekey
 
 import (
 	"bufio"
+	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@@ -94,15 +95,12 @@ func (k *Key) Identity() string {
 }
 
 // Encrypt copies src to dst, encrypted to this key and to every extra
-// recipient named, so the same mnemonic can always read it back again.
+// recipient given, so the same mnemonic can always read it back again.
 // Armored output is the text form age also reads.
 func (k *Key) Encrypt(
-	dst io.Writer, src io.Reader, to []string, armored bool,
+	dst io.Writer, src io.Reader, to []age.Recipient, armored bool,
 ) error {
-	all, err := recipients(k.identity.Recipient(), to)
+	all := append([]age.Recipient{k.identity.Recipient()}, to...)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
 
 	out := dst
 
@@ -113,7 +111,7 @@ func (k *Key) Encrypt(
 		out = text
 	}
 
-	err = encrypt(out, src, all)
+	err := encrypt(out, src, all)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -130,12 +128,12 @@ func (k *Key) Encrypt(
 	return nil
 }
 
-// recipients returns the key's own recipient followed by the ones
+// Recipients reads the recipients named on the command line, for
-// named on the command line, so what the key encrypts it can read.
+// Encrypt to add to the key's own.
-func recipients(mine age.Recipient, to []string) ([]age.Recipient, error) {
+func Recipients(names []string) ([]age.Recipient, error) {
-	list := []age.Recipient{mine}
+	list := make([]age.Recipient, 0, len(names))
 
-	for _, name := range to {
+	for _, name := range names {
 		parsed, err := age.ParseX25519Recipient(name)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading recipient %q: %w", name, err)
@@ -190,12 +188,18 @@ func (k *Key) Decrypt(dst io.Writer, src io.Reader) error {
 }
 
 // unarmored strips the text form when the input begins with the line
-// that starts one, and leaves binary input alone.
+// that starts one, and leaves binary input alone. Like age, it looks
+// past up to 1024 bytes of whitespace for that line, and the text form
+// reader skips blank lines in front of it.
 func unarmored(src io.Reader) io.Reader {
+	const maxWhitespace = 1024
+
 	buffered := bufio.NewReader(src)
 
-	start, err := buffered.Peek(len(armor.Header))
+	// A shorter input gives an error along with all of it, which is
-	if err == nil && string(start) == armor.Header {
+	// enough to look at.
+	start, _ := buffered.Peek(maxWhitespace + len(armor.Header))
+	if bytes.HasPrefix(bytes.TrimSpace(start), []byte(armor.Header)) {
 		return armor.NewReader(buffered)
 	}
 

internal/agekey/agekey_test.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package agekey_test
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"io"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -99,6 +100,27 @@ func TestTheArmoredFormIsText(t *testing.T) {
 	))
 }
 
+func TestTheTextFormIsReadWithWhitespaceInFront(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	key := forIndex(t, 0)
+
+	var sealed bytes.Buffer
+
+	err := key.Encrypt(&sealed, strings.NewReader("hello"), nil, true)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// A blank line and a line of two spaces, as pasting can leave. age
+	// refuses spaces on the first line of the text form itself, and so
+	// does this.
+	pasted := io.MultiReader(strings.NewReader("\n  \n"), &sealed)
+
+	var opened bytes.Buffer
+
+	require.NoError(t, key.Decrypt(&opened, pasted))
+	require.Equal(t, "hello", opened.String())
+}
+
 func TestAFileForSomebodyElseIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
@@ -119,12 +141,12 @@ func TestAnExtraRecipientCanReadItTooAndSoCanTheDerivedOne(t *testing.T) {
 
 	mine, theirs := forIndex(t, 0), forIndex(t, 1)
 
+	to, err := agekey.Recipients([]string{theirs.Recipient()})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
 	var sealed bytes.Buffer
 
-	err := mine.Encrypt(
+	err = mine.Encrypt(&sealed, strings.NewReader("hello"), to, false)
-		&sealed, strings.NewReader("hello"),
-		[]string{theirs.Recipient()}, false,
-	)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	for _, key := range []*agekey.Key{mine, theirs} {
@@ -138,10 +160,7 @@ func TestAnExtraRecipientCanReadItTooAndSoCanTheDerivedOne(t *testing.T) {
 func TestARecipientThatIsNotOneIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	err := forIndex(t, 0).Encrypt(
+	_, err := agekey.Recipients([]string{"not a recipient"})
-		&bytes.Buffer{}, strings.NewReader("hello"),
-		[]string{"not a recipient"}, false,
-	)
 	require.Error(t, err)
 }
 

internal/bip39/LICENSE

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2014-2018 Tyler Smith and contributors
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

internal/bip39/bip39.go

@@ -0,0 +1,268 @@
+// Package bip39 is the Golang implementation of the BIP39 spec.
+//
+// The official BIP39 spec can be found at
+// https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki
+//
+// It is a copy of github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39 v1.1.0, trimmed to what
+// keyfunc uses.
+//
+//nolint:mnd // the numbers are BIP-39's own, written as upstream writes them
+package bip39
+
+import (
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"crypto/sha512"
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"math/big"
+	"strings"
+
+	"golang.org/x/crypto/pbkdf2"
+)
+
+var (
+	// ErrInvalidMnemonic is returned when trying to use a malformed mnemonic.
+	ErrInvalidMnemonic = errors.New("invalid mnenomic")
+
+	// ErrEntropyLengthInvalid is returned when trying to use an entropy set with
+	// an invalid size.
+	ErrEntropyLengthInvalid = errors.New(
+		"entropy length must be [128, 256] and a multiple of 32",
+	)
+
+	// ErrChecksumIncorrect is returned when entropy has the incorrect checksum.
+	ErrChecksumIncorrect = errors.New("checksum incorrect")
+)
+
+// EntropyFromMnemonic takes a mnemonic generated by this library,
+// and returns the input entropy used to generate the given mnemonic.
+// An error is returned if the given mnemonic is invalid.
+func EntropyFromMnemonic(mnemonic string) ([]byte, error) {
+	mnemonicSlice, isValid := splitMnemonicWords(mnemonic)
+	if !isValid {
+		return nil, ErrInvalidMnemonic
+	}
+
+	// Some bitwise operands for working with big.Ints
+	shift11BitsMask := big.NewInt(2048)
+	bigOne := big.NewInt(1)
+
+	// used to isolate the checksum bits from the entropy+checksum byte array
+	wordLengthChecksumMasksMapping := map[int]*big.Int{
+		12: big.NewInt(15),
+		15: big.NewInt(31),
+		18: big.NewInt(63),
+		21: big.NewInt(127),
+		24: big.NewInt(255),
+	}
+	// used to use only the desired x of 8 available checksum bits.
+	// 256 bit (word length 24) requires all 8 bits of the checksum,
+	// and thus no shifting is needed for it (we would get a divByZero crash if we did)
+	wordLengthChecksumShiftMapping := map[int]*big.Int{
+		12: big.NewInt(16),
+		15: big.NewInt(8),
+		18: big.NewInt(4),
+		21: big.NewInt(2),
+	}
+
+	// wordMap is a reverse lookup map for the word list
+	wordMap := map[string]int{}
+	for i, v := range English() {
+		wordMap[v] = i
+	}
+
+	// Decode the words into a big.Int.
+	b := big.NewInt(0)
+
+	for _, v := range mnemonicSlice {
+		index, found := wordMap[v]
+		if !found {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+				"%w: word `%v` not found in reverse map", ErrInvalidMnemonic, v,
+			)
+		}
+
+		var wordBytes [2]byte
+
+		//nolint:gosec // the index of a word in the list is below 2048
+		binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(wordBytes[:], uint16(index))
+
+		b = b.Mul(b, shift11BitsMask)
+		b = b.Or(b, big.NewInt(0).SetBytes(wordBytes[:]))
+	}
+
+	// Build and add the checksum to the big.Int.
+	checksum := big.NewInt(0)
+	checksumMask := wordLengthChecksumMasksMapping[len(mnemonicSlice)]
+	checksum = checksum.And(b, checksumMask)
+
+	b.Div(b, big.NewInt(0).Add(checksumMask, bigOne))
+
+	// The entropy is the underlying bytes of the big.Int. Any upper bytes of
+	// all 0's are not returned so we pad the beginning of the slice with empty
+	// bytes if necessary.
+	entropy := b.Bytes()
+	entropy = padByteSlice(entropy, len(mnemonicSlice)/3*4)
+
+	// Generate the checksum and compare with the one we got from the mneomnic.
+	entropyChecksumBytes := computeChecksum(entropy)
+	entropyChecksum := big.NewInt(int64(entropyChecksumBytes[0]))
+
+	if l := len(mnemonicSlice); l != 24 {
+		checksumShift := wordLengthChecksumShiftMapping[l]
+		entropyChecksum.Div(entropyChecksum, checksumShift)
+	}
+
+	if checksum.Cmp(entropyChecksum) != 0 {
+		return nil, ErrChecksumIncorrect
+	}
+
+	return entropy, nil
+}
+
+// NewMnemonic will return a string consisting of the mnemonic words for
+// the given entropy.
+// If the provide entropy is invalid, an error will be returned.
+func NewMnemonic(entropy []byte) (string, error) {
+	// Compute some lengths for convenience.
+	entropyBitLength := len(entropy) * 8
+	checksumBitLength := entropyBitLength / 32
+	sentenceLength := (entropyBitLength + checksumBitLength) / 11
+
+	// Validate that the requested size is supported.
+	err := validateEntropyBitSize(entropyBitLength)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	// Some bitwise operands for working with big.Ints
+	last11BitsMask := big.NewInt(2047)
+	shift11BitsMask := big.NewInt(2048)
+
+	// wordList is the set of words to use
+	wordList := English()
+
+	// Add checksum to entropy.
+	entropy = addChecksum(entropy)
+
+	// Break entropy up into sentenceLength chunks of 11 bits.
+	// For each word AND mask the rightmost 11 bits and find the word at that index.
+	// Then bitshift entropy 11 bits right and repeat.
+	// Add to the last empty slot so we can work with LSBs instead of MSB.
+
+	// Entropy as an int so we can bitmask without worrying about bytes slices.
+	entropyInt := new(big.Int).SetBytes(entropy)
+
+	// Slice to hold words in.
+	words := make([]string, sentenceLength)
+
+	// Throw away big.Int for AND masking.
+	word := big.NewInt(0)
+
+	for i := sentenceLength - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+		// Get 11 right most bits and bitshift 11 to the right for next time.
+		word.And(entropyInt, last11BitsMask)
+		entropyInt.Div(entropyInt, shift11BitsMask)
+
+		// Get the bytes representing the 11 bits as a 2 byte slice.
+		wordBytes := padByteSlice(word.Bytes(), 2)
+
+		// Convert bytes to an index and add that word to the list.
+		words[i] = wordList[binary.BigEndian.Uint16(wordBytes)]
+	}
+
+	return strings.Join(words, " "), nil
+}
+
+// NewSeed creates a hashed seed output given a provided string and password.
+// No checking is performed to validate that the string provided is a valid mnemonic.
+func NewSeed(mnemonic string, password string) []byte {
+	return pbkdf2.Key([]byte(mnemonic), []byte("mnemonic"+password), 2048, 64, sha512.New)
+}
+
+// IsMnemonicValid attempts to verify that the provided mnemonic is valid.
+// Validity is determined by both the number of words being appropriate,
+// and that all the words in the mnemonic are present in the word list.
+func IsMnemonicValid(mnemonic string) bool {
+	_, err := EntropyFromMnemonic(mnemonic)
+
+	return err == nil
+}
+
+// Appends to data the first (len(data) / 32)bits of the result of sha256(data)
+// Currently only supports data up to 32 bytes
+func addChecksum(data []byte) []byte {
+	// Some bitwise operands for working with big.Ints
+	bigOne := big.NewInt(1)
+	bigTwo := big.NewInt(2)
+
+	// Get first byte of sha256
+	hash := computeChecksum(data)
+	firstChecksumByte := hash[0]
+
+	// len() is in bytes so we divide by 4
+	checksumBitLength := uint(len(data) / 4)
+
+	// For each bit of check sum we want we shift the data one the left
+	// and then set the (new) right most bit equal to checksum bit at that index
+	// staring from the left
+	dataBigInt := new(big.Int).SetBytes(data)
+	for i := range checksumBitLength {
+		// Bitshift 1 left
+		dataBigInt.Mul(dataBigInt, bigTwo)
+
+		// Set rightmost bit if leftmost checksum bit is set
+		if firstChecksumByte&(1<<(7-i)) > 0 {
+			dataBigInt.Or(dataBigInt, bigOne)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return dataBigInt.Bytes()
+}
+
+func computeChecksum(data []byte) []byte {
+	hasher := sha256.New()
+	hasher.Write(data)
+
+	return hasher.Sum(nil)
+}
+
+// validateEntropyBitSize ensures that entropy is the correct size for being a
+// mnemonic.
+func validateEntropyBitSize(bitSize int) error {
+	if (bitSize%32) != 0 || bitSize < 128 || bitSize > 256 {
+		return ErrEntropyLengthInvalid
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// padByteSlice returns a byte slice of the given size with contents of the
+// given slice left padded and any empty spaces filled with 0's.
+func padByteSlice(slice []byte, length int) []byte {
+	offset := length - len(slice)
+	if offset <= 0 {
+		return slice
+	}
+
+	newSlice := make([]byte, length)
+	copy(newSlice[offset:], slice)
+
+	return newSlice
+}
+
+func splitMnemonicWords(mnemonic string) ([]string, bool) {
+	// Create a list of all the words in the mnemonic sentence
+	words := strings.Fields(mnemonic)
+
+	// Get num of words
+	numOfWords := len(words)
+
+	// The number of words should be 12, 15, 18, 21 or 24
+	if numOfWords%3 != 0 || numOfWords < 12 || numOfWords > 24 {
+		return nil, false
+	}
+
+	return words, true
+}

internal/bip39/bip39_internal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,442 @@
+package bip39
+
+import (
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+type vector struct {
+	entropy  string
+	mnemonic string
+	seed     string
+}
+
+func TestNewMnemonic(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for _, vector := range testVectors() {
+		entropy, err := hex.DecodeString(vector.entropy)
+		assertNil(t, err)
+
+		mnemonic, err := NewMnemonic(entropy)
+		assertNil(t, err)
+		assertEqualString(t, vector.mnemonic, mnemonic)
+
+		seed := NewSeed(mnemonic, "TREZOR")
+		assertEqualString(t, vector.seed, hex.EncodeToString(seed))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNewMnemonicInvalidEntropy(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	_, err := NewMnemonic([]byte{})
+	assertNotNil(t, err)
+}
+
+func TestIsMnemonicValid(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for _, vector := range badMnemonicSentences() {
+		assertFalse(t, IsMnemonicValid(vector.mnemonic))
+	}
+
+	for _, vector := range testVectors() {
+		assertTrue(t, IsMnemonicValid(vector.mnemonic))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPadByteSlice(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	assertEqualByteSlices(t, []byte{0}, padByteSlice([]byte{}, 1))
+	assertEqualByteSlices(t, []byte{0, 1}, padByteSlice([]byte{1}, 2))
+	assertEqualByteSlices(t, []byte{1, 1}, padByteSlice([]byte{1, 1}, 2))
+	assertEqualByteSlices(t, []byte{1, 1, 1}, padByteSlice([]byte{1, 1, 1}, 2))
+}
+
+//nolint:funlen // the test vectors, kept as upstream wrote them
+func TestMnemonicToByteArrayForZeroLeadingSeeds(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	ms := []string{
+		"00000000000000000000000000000000",
+		"00a84c51041d49acca66e6160c1fa999",
+		"00ca45df1673c76537a2020bfed1dafd",
+		"0019d5871c7b81fd83d474ef1c1e1dae",
+		"00dcb021afb35ffcdd1d032d2056fc86",
+		"0062be7bd09a27288b6cf0eb565ec739",
+		"00dc705b5efa0adf25b9734226ba60d4",
+		"0017747418d54c6003fa64fade83374b",
+		"000d44d3ee7c3dfa45e608c65384431b",
+		"008241c1ef976b0323061affe5bf24b9",
+		"00a6aec77e4d16bea80b50a34991aaba",
+		"0011527b8c6ddecb9d0c20beccdeb58d",
+		"001c938c503c8f5a2bba2248ff621546",
+		"0002f90aaf7a8327698f0031b6317c36",
+		"00bff43071ed7e07f77b14f615993bac",
+		"00da143e00ef17fc63b6fb22dcc2c326",
+		"00ffc6764fb32a354cab1a3ddefb015d",
+		"0062ef47e0985e8953f24760b7598cdd",
+		"003bf9765064f71d304908d906c065f5",
+		"00993851503471439d154b3613947474",
+		"007ad0ffe9eae753a483a76af06dfa67",
+		"00091824db9ec19e663bee51d64c83cc",
+		"00f48ac621f7e3cb39b2012ac3121543",
+		"0072917415cdca24dfa66c4a92c885b4",
+		"0027ced2b279ea8a91d29364487cdbf4",
+		"00b9c0d37fb10ba272e55842ad812583",
+		"004b3d0d2b9285946c687a5350479c8c",
+		"00c7c12a37d3a7f8c1532b17c89b724c",
+		"00f400c5545f06ae17ad00f3041e4e26",
+		"001e290be10df4d209f247ac5878662b",
+		"00bf0f74568e582a7dd1ee64f792ec8b",
+		"00d2e43ecde6b72b847db1539ed89e23",
+		"00cecba6678505bb7bfec8ed307251f6",
+		"000aeed1a9edcbb4bc88f610d3ce84eb",
+		"00d06206aadfc25c2b21805d283f15ae",
+		"00a31789a2ab2d54f8fadd5331010287",
+		"003493c5f520e8d5c0483e895a121dc9",
+		"004706112800b76001ece2e268bc830e",
+		"00ab31e28bb5305be56e38337dbfa486",
+		"006872fe85df6b0fa945248e6f9379d1",
+		"00717e5e375da6934e3cfdf57edaf3bd",
+		"007f1b46e7b9c4c76e77c434b9bccd6b",
+		"00dc93735aa35def3b9a2ff676560205",
+		"002cd5dcd881a49c7b87714c6a570a76",
+		"0013b5af9e13fac87e0c505686cfb6bf",
+		"007ab1ec9526b0bc04b64ae65fd42631",
+		"00abb4e11d8385c1cca905a6a65e9144",
+		"00574fc62a0501ad8afada2e246708c3",
+		"005207e0a815bb2da6b4c35ec1f2bf52",
+		"00f3460f136fb9700080099cbd62bc18",
+		"007a591f204c03ca7b93981237112526",
+		"00cfe0befd428f8e5f83a5bfc801472e",
+		"00987551ac7a879bf0c09b8bc474d9af",
+		"00cadd3ce3d78e49fbc933a85682df3f",
+		"00bfbf2e346c855ccc360d03281455a1",
+		"004cdf55d429d028f715544ce22d4f31",
+		"0075c84a7d15e0ac85e1e41025eed23b",
+		"00807dddd61f71725d336cab844d2cb5",
+		"00422f21b77fe20e367467ed98c18410",
+		"00b44d0ac622907119c626c850a462fd",
+		"00363f5e7f22fc49f3cd662a28956563",
+		"000fe5837e68397bbf58db9f221bdc4e",
+		"0056af33835c888ef0c22599686445d3",
+		"00790a8647fd3dfb38b7e2b6f578f2c6",
+		"00da8d9009675cb7beec930e263014fb",
+		"00d4b384540a5bb54aa760edaa4fb2fe",
+		"00be9b1479ed680fdd5d91a41eb926d0",
+		"009182347502af97077c40a6e74b4b5c",
+		"00f5c90ee1c67fa77fd821f8e9fab4f1",
+		"005568f9a2dd6b0c0cc2f5ba3d9cac38",
+		"008b481f8678577d9cf6aa3f6cd6056b",
+		"00c4323ece5e4fe3b6cd4c5c932931af",
+		"009791f7550c3798c5a214cb2d0ea773",
+		"008a7baab22481f0ad8167dd9f90d55c",
+		"00f0e601519aafdc8ff94975e64c946d",
+		"0083b61e0daa9219df59d697c270cd31",
+	}
+
+	for _, m := range ms {
+		seed, _ := hex.DecodeString(m)
+
+		mnemonic, err := NewMnemonic(seed)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("%v", err)
+		}
+
+		_, err = EntropyFromMnemonic(mnemonic)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("Failed for %x - %v", seed, mnemonic)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEntropyFromMnemonic128(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	testEntropyFromMnemonic(t, 128)
+}
+
+func TestEntropyFromMnemonic160(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	testEntropyFromMnemonic(t, 160)
+}
+
+func TestEntropyFromMnemonic192(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	testEntropyFromMnemonic(t, 192)
+}
+
+func TestEntropyFromMnemonic224(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	testEntropyFromMnemonic(t, 224)
+}
+
+func TestEntropyFromMnemonic256(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	testEntropyFromMnemonic(t, 256)
+}
+
+//nolint:dupword,lll // the test vector, kept as upstream wrote it
+func TestEntropyFromMnemonicInvalidChecksum(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	_, err := EntropyFromMnemonic("abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon yellow")
+	assertEqual(t, ErrChecksumIncorrect, err)
+}
+
+//nolint:dupword // the test vectors, kept as upstream wrote them
+func TestEntropyFromMnemonicInvalidMnemonicSize(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for _, mnemonic := range []string{
+		"a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a", // Too many words
+		"a",                           // Too few
+		"a a a a a a a a a a a a a a", // Not multiple of 3
+	} {
+		_, err := EntropyFromMnemonic(mnemonic)
+		assertEqual(t, ErrInvalidMnemonic, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func testEntropyFromMnemonic(t *testing.T, bitSize int) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	for range 512 {
+		expectedEntropy := make([]byte, bitSize/8)
+		_, err := rand.Read(expectedEntropy)
+		assertNil(t, err)
+		assertTrue(t, len(expectedEntropy) != 0)
+
+		mnemonic, err := NewMnemonic(expectedEntropy)
+		assertNil(t, err)
+		assertTrue(t, len(mnemonic) != 0)
+
+		actualEntropy, err := EntropyFromMnemonic(mnemonic)
+		assertNil(t, err)
+		assertEqualByteSlices(t, expectedEntropy, actualEntropy)
+	}
+}
+
+//nolint:dupword,funlen,lll // the BIP-39 test vectors, kept as upstream wrote them
+func testVectors() []vector {
+	return []vector{
+		{
+			entropy:  "00000000000000000000000000000000",
+			mnemonic: "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon about",
+			seed:     "c55257c360c07c72029aebc1b53c05ed0362ada38ead3e3e9efa3708e53495531f09a6987599d18264c1e1c92f2cf141630c7a3c4ab7c81b2f001698e7463b04",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f",
+			mnemonic: "legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank yellow",
+			seed:     "2e8905819b8723fe2c1d161860e5ee1830318dbf49a83bd451cfb8440c28bd6fa457fe1296106559a3c80937a1c1069be3a3a5bd381ee6260e8d9739fce1f607",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "80808080808080808080808080808080",
+			mnemonic: "letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter advice cage above",
+			seed:     "d71de856f81a8acc65e6fc851a38d4d7ec216fd0796d0a6827a3ad6ed5511a30fa280f12eb2e47ed2ac03b5c462a0358d18d69fe4f985ec81778c1b370b652a8",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff",
+			mnemonic: "zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo wrong",
+			seed:     "ac27495480225222079d7be181583751e86f571027b0497b5b5d11218e0a8a13332572917f0f8e5a589620c6f15b11c61dee327651a14c34e18231052e48c069",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
+			mnemonic: "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon agent",
+			seed:     "035895f2f481b1b0f01fcf8c289c794660b289981a78f8106447707fdd9666ca06da5a9a565181599b79f53b844d8a71dd9f439c52a3d7b3e8a79c906ac845fa",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f",
+			mnemonic: "legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal will",
+			seed:     "f2b94508732bcbacbcc020faefecfc89feafa6649a5491b8c952cede496c214a0c7b3c392d168748f2d4a612bada0753b52a1c7ac53c1e93abd5c6320b9e95dd",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "808080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080",
+			mnemonic: "letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter always",
+			seed:     "107d7c02a5aa6f38c58083ff74f04c607c2d2c0ecc55501dadd72d025b751bc27fe913ffb796f841c49b1d33b610cf0e91d3aa239027f5e99fe4ce9e5088cd65",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff",
+			mnemonic: "zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo when",
+			seed:     "0cd6e5d827bb62eb8fc1e262254223817fd068a74b5b449cc2f667c3f1f985a76379b43348d952e2265b4cd129090758b3e3c2c49103b5051aac2eaeb890a528",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
+			mnemonic: "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon art",
+			seed:     "bda85446c68413707090a52022edd26a1c9462295029f2e60cd7c4f2bbd3097170af7a4d73245cafa9c3cca8d561a7c3de6f5d4a10be8ed2a5e608d68f92fcc8",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f",
+			mnemonic: "legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank year wave sausage worth title",
+			seed:     "bc09fca1804f7e69da93c2f2028eb238c227f2e9dda30cd63699232578480a4021b146ad717fbb7e451ce9eb835f43620bf5c514db0f8add49f5d121449d3e87",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "8080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080",
+			mnemonic: "letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic bless",
+			seed:     "c0c519bd0e91a2ed54357d9d1ebef6f5af218a153624cf4f2da911a0ed8f7a09e2ef61af0aca007096df430022f7a2b6fb91661a9589097069720d015e4e982f",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff",
+			mnemonic: "zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo vote",
+			seed:     "dd48c104698c30cfe2b6142103248622fb7bb0ff692eebb00089b32d22484e1613912f0a5b694407be899ffd31ed3992c456cdf60f5d4564b8ba3f05a69890ad",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "77c2b00716cec7213839159e404db50d",
+			mnemonic: "jelly better achieve collect unaware mountain thought cargo oxygen act hood bridge",
+			seed:     "b5b6d0127db1a9d2226af0c3346031d77af31e918dba64287a1b44b8ebf63cdd52676f672a290aae502472cf2d602c051f3e6f18055e84e4c43897fc4e51a6ff",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "b63a9c59a6e641f288ebc103017f1da9f8290b3da6bdef7b",
+			mnemonic: "renew stay biology evidence goat welcome casual join adapt armor shuffle fault little machine walk stumble urge swap",
+			seed:     "9248d83e06f4cd98debf5b6f010542760df925ce46cf38a1bdb4e4de7d21f5c39366941c69e1bdbf2966e0f6e6dbece898a0e2f0a4c2b3e640953dfe8b7bbdc5",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "3e141609b97933b66a060dcddc71fad1d91677db872031e85f4c015c5e7e8982",
+			mnemonic: "dignity pass list indicate nasty swamp pool script soccer toe leaf photo multiply desk host tomato cradle drill spread actor shine dismiss champion exotic",
+			seed:     "ff7f3184df8696d8bef94b6c03114dbee0ef89ff938712301d27ed8336ca89ef9635da20af07d4175f2bf5f3de130f39c9d9e8dd0472489c19b1a020a940da67",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "0460ef47585604c5660618db2e6a7e7f",
+			mnemonic: "afford alter spike radar gate glance object seek swamp infant panel yellow",
+			seed:     "65f93a9f36b6c85cbe634ffc1f99f2b82cbb10b31edc7f087b4f6cb9e976e9faf76ff41f8f27c99afdf38f7a303ba1136ee48a4c1e7fcd3dba7aa876113a36e4",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "72f60ebac5dd8add8d2a25a797102c3ce21bc029c200076f",
+			mnemonic: "indicate race push merry suffer human cruise dwarf pole review arch keep canvas theme poem divorce alter left",
+			seed:     "3bbf9daa0dfad8229786ace5ddb4e00fa98a044ae4c4975ffd5e094dba9e0bb289349dbe2091761f30f382d4e35c4a670ee8ab50758d2c55881be69e327117ba",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "2c85efc7f24ee4573d2b81a6ec66cee209b2dcbd09d8eddc51e0215b0b68e416",
+			mnemonic: "clutch control vehicle tonight unusual clog visa ice plunge glimpse recipe series open hour vintage deposit universe tip job dress radar refuse motion taste",
+			seed:     "fe908f96f46668b2d5b37d82f558c77ed0d69dd0e7e043a5b0511c48c2f1064694a956f86360c93dd04052a8899497ce9e985ebe0c8c52b955e6ae86d4ff4449",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "eaebabb2383351fd31d703840b32e9e2",
+			mnemonic: "turtle front uncle idea crush write shrug there lottery flower risk shell",
+			seed:     "bdfb76a0759f301b0b899a1e3985227e53b3f51e67e3f2a65363caedf3e32fde42a66c404f18d7b05818c95ef3ca1e5146646856c461c073169467511680876c",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "7ac45cfe7722ee6c7ba84fbc2d5bd61b45cb2fe5eb65aa78",
+			mnemonic: "kiss carry display unusual confirm curtain upgrade antique rotate hello void custom frequent obey nut hole price segment",
+			seed:     "ed56ff6c833c07982eb7119a8f48fd363c4a9b1601cd2de736b01045c5eb8ab4f57b079403485d1c4924f0790dc10a971763337cb9f9c62226f64fff26397c79",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "4fa1a8bc3e6d80ee1316050e862c1812031493212b7ec3f3bb1b08f168cabeef",
+			mnemonic: "exile ask congress lamp submit jacket era scheme attend cousin alcohol catch course end lucky hurt sentence oven short ball bird grab wing top",
+			seed:     "095ee6f817b4c2cb30a5a797360a81a40ab0f9a4e25ecd672a3f58a0b5ba0687c096a6b14d2c0deb3bdefce4f61d01ae07417d502429352e27695163f7447a8c",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "18ab19a9f54a9274f03e5209a2ac8a91",
+			mnemonic: "board flee heavy tunnel powder denial science ski answer betray cargo cat",
+			seed:     "6eff1bb21562918509c73cb990260db07c0ce34ff0e3cc4a8cb3276129fbcb300bddfe005831350efd633909f476c45c88253276d9fd0df6ef48609e8bb7dca8",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "18a2e1d81b8ecfb2a333adcb0c17a5b9eb76cc5d05db91a4",
+			mnemonic: "board blade invite damage undo sun mimic interest slam gaze truly inherit resist great inject rocket museum chief",
+			seed:     "f84521c777a13b61564234bf8f8b62b3afce27fc4062b51bb5e62bdfecb23864ee6ecf07c1d5a97c0834307c5c852d8ceb88e7c97923c0a3b496bedd4e5f88a9",
+		},
+		{
+			entropy:  "15da872c95a13dd738fbf50e427583ad61f18fd99f628c417a61cf8343c90419",
+			mnemonic: "beyond stage sleep clip because twist token leaf atom beauty genius food business side grid unable middle armed observe pair crouch tonight away coconut",
+			seed:     "b15509eaa2d09d3efd3e006ef42151b30367dc6e3aa5e44caba3fe4d3e352e65101fbdb86a96776b91946ff06f8eac594dc6ee1d3e82a42dfe1b40fef6bcc3fd",
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+//nolint:dupword,lll // the test vectors, kept as upstream wrote them
+func badMnemonicSentences() []vector {
+	return []vector{
+		{mnemonic: "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon"},
+		{mnemonic: "legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank yellow yellow"},
+		{mnemonic: "letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter advice caged above"},
+		{mnemonic: "zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo, wrong"},
+		{mnemonic: "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon"},
+		{mnemonic: "legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal will will will"},
+		{mnemonic: "letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter always."},
+		{mnemonic: "zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo why"},
+		{mnemonic: "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon art art"},
+		{mnemonic: "legal winner thank year wave sausage worth useful legal winner thanks year wave worth useful legal winner thank year wave sausage worth title"},
+		{mnemonic: "letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letters advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic bless"},
+		{mnemonic: "zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo voted"},
+		{mnemonic: "jello better achieve collect unaware mountain thought cargo oxygen act hood bridge"},
+		{mnemonic: "renew, stay, biology, evidence, goat, welcome, casual, join, adapt, armor, shuffle, fault, little, machine, walk, stumble, urge, swap"},
+		{mnemonic: "dignity pass list indicate nasty"},
+
+		// From issue 32
+		{mnemonic: "abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon letter"},
+	}
+}
+
+func assertNil(t *testing.T, object any) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	if object != nil {
+		t.Errorf("Expected nil, got %v", object)
+	}
+}
+
+func assertNotNil(t *testing.T, object any) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	if object == nil {
+		t.Error("Expected not nil")
+	}
+}
+
+func assertTrue(t *testing.T, a bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	if !a {
+		t.Error("Expected true, got false")
+	}
+}
+
+func assertFalse(t *testing.T, a bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	if a {
+		t.Error("Expected false, got true")
+	}
+}
+
+func assertEqual(t *testing.T, a, b any) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	if a != b {
+		t.Errorf("Objects not equal, expected `%s` and got `%s`", a, b)
+	}
+}
+
+func assertEqualString(t *testing.T, a, b string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	if a != b {
+		t.Errorf("Strings not equal, expected `%s` and got `%s`", a, b)
+	}
+}
+
+func assertEqualByteSlices(t *testing.T, a, b []byte) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	if len(a) != len(b) {
+		t.Errorf("Byte slices not equal, expected %v and got %v", a, b)
+
+		return
+	}
+
+	for i := range a {
+		if a[i] != b[i] {
+			t.Errorf("Byte slices not equal, expected %v and got %v", a, b)
+
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/bip39/english_internal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package bip39
+
+import (
+	"hash/crc32"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestEnglishChecksum(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	// Ensure word list is correct
+	// $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitcoin/bips/master/bip-0039/english.txt
+	// $ crc32 english.txt
+	// c1dbd296
+	checksum := crc32.ChecksumIEEE([]byte(english))
+	if checksum != 0xc1dbd296 {
+		t.Error("english checksum invalid")
+	}
+}

internal/bip39/example_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package bip39_test
+
+import (
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/bip39"
+)
+
+//nolint:lll // the test vector and its output, kept as upstream wrote them
+func ExampleNewMnemonic() {
+	// the entropy can be any byte slice, generated how pleased,
+	// as long its bit size is a multiple of 32 and is within
+	// the inclusive range of {128,256}
+	entropy, _ := hex.DecodeString("066dca1a2bb7e8a1db2832148ce9933eea0f3ac9548d793112d9a95c9407efad")
+
+	// generate a mnemomic
+	mnemomic, _ := bip39.NewMnemonic(entropy)
+	fmt.Println(mnemomic)
+	// output:
+	// all hour make first leader extend hole alien behind guard gospel lava path output census museum junior mass reopen famous sing advance salt reform
+}
+
+//nolint:lll // the test vector and its output, kept as upstream wrote them
+func ExampleNewSeed() {
+	seed := bip39.NewSeed("all hour make first leader extend hole alien behind guard gospel lava path output census museum junior mass reopen famous sing advance salt reform", "TREZOR")
+	fmt.Println(hex.EncodeToString(seed))
+	// output:
+	// 26e975ec644423f4a4c4f4215ef09b4bd7ef924e85d1d17c4cf3f136c2863cf6df0a475045652c57eb5fb41513ca2a2d67722b77e954b4b3fc11f7590449191d
+}

internal/childmnemonic/childmnemonic.go

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/pkg/bip85"
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil/hdkeychain"
-	bip39 "github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/bip39"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/derive"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/pkg/bip85"
 )
 
 // english is the number BIP-85 gives the English word list.
@@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ const DefaultWords = twelve
 // ErrWordCount is returned for a length this tool does not offer.
 var ErrWordCount = errors.New("a child mnemonic has 12, 18 or 24 words")
 
+// CheckWords refuses a length this tool does not offer, so that the
+// command can turn it down before it looks for the mnemonic.
+func CheckWords(words uint32) error {
+	switch words {
+	case twelve, eighteen, twentyFour:
+		return nil
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w, not %d", ErrWordCount, words)
+	}
+}
+
 // Derive returns the English child mnemonic of that many words at that
 // key index, taken from the master key with BIP-85's own mnemonic
 // application, number 39. The words come straight from the BIP-85
@@ -38,13 +49,12 @@ func Derive(
 	master *hdkeychain.ExtendedKey,
 	words, index uint32,
 ) (string, error) {
-	switch words {
+	err := CheckWords(words)
-	case twelve, eighteen, twentyFour:
+	if err != nil {
-	default:
+		return "", err
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("%w, not %d", ErrWordCount, words)
 	}
 
-	err := derive.CheckIndex(index)
+	err = derive.CheckIndex(index)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}

internal/childmnemonic/childmnemonic_test.go

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil/hdkeychain"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-	bip39 "github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/bip39"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/childmnemonic"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/derive"
 )

internal/cli/age/age.go

@@ -11,12 +11,13 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/agekey"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/cli/options"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/cli/signals"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/derive"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/signals"
 )
 
 // ErrInterrupted is returned when SIGINT, SIGTERM or SIGHUP has been
@@ -108,44 +109,30 @@ func decrypt() *cobra.Command {
 }
 
 // runEncrypt encrypts to the derived recipient and any others given.
+// The recipients are read, the -o path looked at and the input opened
+// before the key is derived, so that a run refused for any of them
+// never asks for the mnemonic.
 func runEncrypt(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	key, err := derived(cmd)
+	names, err := cmd.Flags().GetStringArray("to")
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	to, err := cmd.Flags().GetStringArray("to")
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("reading the recipients: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	to, err := agekey.Recipients(names)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
 	armored, err := cmd.Flags().GetBool("armor")
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("reading the armor flag: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	return through(cmd, args, func(dst io.Writer, src io.Reader) error {
+	err = checkOutput(cmd)
-		return key.Encrypt(dst, src, to, armored)
-	})
-}
-
-// runDecrypt decrypts with the derived identity.
-func runDecrypt(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-	key, err := derived(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	return through(cmd, args, key.Decrypt)
-}
-
-// through opens the input the arguments ask for and hands it to the
-// work, with the file --output names to write to, or the command's own
-// output when it names none.
-func through(
-	cmd *cobra.Command, args []string,
-	work func(io.Writer, io.Reader) error,
-) error {
 	src, closeSrc, err := input(cmd, args)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -153,16 +140,84 @@ func through(
 
 	defer closeSrc()
 
+	key, err := derived(cmd)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return through(cmd, src, func(dst io.Writer, plain io.Reader) error {
+		return key.Encrypt(dst, plain, to, armored)
+	})
+}
+
+// runDecrypt decrypts with the derived identity. The -o path is looked
+// at and the input opened before the key is derived, as for runEncrypt.
+func runDecrypt(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+	err := checkOutput(cmd)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	src, closeSrc, err := input(cmd, args)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	defer closeSrc()
+
+	key, err := derived(cmd)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return through(cmd, src, key.Decrypt)
+}
+
+// through hands the input to the work, with the file --output names to
+// write to, or the command's own output when it names none or names the
+// same file as that output, and the command's own error output when it
+// names the same file as that. Those two are the streams the tool
+// already has, so whatever they are redirected to is written as the
+// redirect says, never replaced.
+func through(
+	cmd *cobra.Command, src io.Reader,
+	work func(io.Writer, io.Reader) error,
+) error {
 	name, err := cmd.Flags().GetString("output")
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("reading the output file: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	if name == "" {
+	switch {
+	case name == "", same(name, cmd.OutOrStdout()):
 		return work(cmd.OutOrStdout(), src)
+	case same(name, cmd.ErrOrStderr()):
+		return work(cmd.ErrOrStderr(), src)
+	default:
+		return output(name, src, work)
+	}
+}
+
+// same reports whether the named path, followed to the end, is the
+// file the stream writes to, whatever name it is reached by, such as
+// /dev/stdout or /dev/fd/1 for standard output.
+func same(name string, stream io.Writer) bool {
+	file, ok := stream.(*os.File)
+	if !ok {
+		return false
 	}
 
-	return output(name, src, work)
+	streamInfo, err := file.Stat()
+	if err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	info, err := os.Stat(name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	return os.SameFile(info, streamInfo)
 }
 
 // input returns what to read from: the named file, or the command's
@@ -181,6 +236,52 @@ func input(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) (io.Reader, func(), error) {
 	return file, func() { _ = file.Close() }, nil
 }
 
+// checkOutput refuses an -o path that output could not write to,
+// before anything is written: a directory or a symlink to one, one
+// whose directory is missing or is not a directory, or a symlink that
+// points at nothing. It creates nothing; output looks at the path again
+// when it writes.
+func checkOutput(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
+	name, err := cmd.Flags().GetString("output")
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("reading the output file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	if name == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	info, err := os.Lstat(name)
+
+	switch {
+	case errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist):
+		// replace makes its new file in this directory. When the
+		// directory is a file instead, os.Lstat has already failed with
+		// ENOTDIR, the case below.
+		directory := filepath.Dir(name)
+
+		_, err = os.Stat(directory)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("looking at %s: %w", directory, err)
+		}
+
+		return nil
+	case err != nil:
+		return fmt.Errorf("looking at %s: %w", name, err)
+	case info.Mode().Type() == fs.ModeSymlink:
+		info, err = os.Stat(name)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("following %s: %w", name, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if info.IsDir() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("writing to %s: %w", name, syscall.EISDIR)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 // output has the work write to the named path, going by what is there
 // without following a final symlink:
 //
@@ -204,7 +305,7 @@ func output(
 	case info.Mode().IsRegular():
 		return replace(name, src, work)
 	case info.Mode().Type() == fs.ModeSymlink:
-		// os.Stat follows the link as opening it would. /dev/stdout
+		// os.Stat follows the link as opening it would. /dev/fd/3
 		// needs that: it reaches a pipe or a terminal through a link
 		// that names no path.
 		info, err = os.Stat(name)

internal/cli/age_test.go

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import (
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/agekey"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/cli"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/cli/age"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/derive"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/mnemonic"
 )
 
@@ -69,6 +70,82 @@ func TestAnotherRecipientIsAddedAndTheDerivedOneStays(t *testing.T) {
 	)
 }
 
+// The mnemonic command fails in these runs, so the refusal of the index
+// shows that it was checked before the mnemonic was looked for.
+func TestAnAgeIndexWithNoHardenedChildIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, failingMnemonicCommand)
+
+	for _, command := range []string{"pub", "priv", "encrypt", "decrypt"} {
+		out, err := execute(t, "age", command, "-n", tooLarge)
+		require.ErrorIs(t, err, derive.ErrIndexTooLarge, command)
+		require.Empty(t, out, command)
+	}
+}
+
+// The mnemonic command fails in this run, so the refusal of the
+// recipient shows that it was read before the mnemonic was looked for.
+func TestAnEncryptionToARecipientThatIsNotOneIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, failingMnemonicCommand)
+
+	plain := written(t, "notes.txt", "the secret\n")
+
+	out, err := execute(t, "age", "encrypt", "--to", "bogus", plain)
+	require.ErrorContains(t, err, `reading recipient "bogus"`)
+	require.Empty(t, out)
+}
+
+// The mnemonic command fails in these runs, so the refusal of the input
+// file shows that it was opened before the mnemonic was looked for.
+func TestAnInputFileThatCannotBeOpenedIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, failingMnemonicCommand)
+
+	missing := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "missing")
+
+	for _, operation := range []string{"encrypt", "decrypt"} {
+		out, err := execute(t, "age", operation, missing)
+		require.ErrorIs(t, err, fs.ErrNotExist, operation)
+		require.Empty(t, out, operation)
+	}
+}
+
+// The mnemonic command fails in these runs, so the refusal of the -o
+// path shows that it was looked at before the mnemonic was looked for.
+func TestAnOutputPathThatCannotBeWrittenIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, failingMnemonicCommand)
+
+	plain := written(t, "notes.txt", "the secret\n")
+	directory := t.TempDir()
+	missing := filepath.Join(directory, "missing")
+	dangling := filepath.Join(directory, "dangling")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(missing, dangling))
+
+	toDirectory := filepath.Join(directory, "to-directory")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), toDirectory))
+
+	refusals := map[string]error{
+		filepath.Join(missing, "notes.age"): fs.ErrNotExist,
+		filepath.Join(plain, "notes.age"):   syscall.ENOTDIR,
+		dangling:                            fs.ErrNotExist,
+		directory:                           syscall.EISDIR,
+		toDirectory:                         syscall.EISDIR,
+	}
+
+	for name, refusal := range refusals {
+		out, err := execute(t, "age", "encrypt", "-o", name, plain)
+		require.ErrorIs(t, err, refusal, name)
+		require.Empty(t, out, name)
+
+		out, err = execute(t, "age", "decrypt", "-o", name, plain)
+		require.ErrorIs(t, err, refusal, name)
+		require.Empty(t, out, name)
+	}
+
+	// Nothing was made beside the two symlinks.
+	left, err := os.ReadDir(directory)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, left, 2)
+}
+
 func TestAFileForAnotherKeyIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
 
@@ -151,6 +228,58 @@ func TestANamedPipeAtTheOutputPathIsWrittenToAndStaysAPipe(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, "the secret\n", run(t, "age", "decrypt", sealedFile))
 }
 
+func TestANameForStandardOutputAddsToTheFileItIsAppendedTo(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
+
+	sealed := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "notes.age")
+	run(t, "age", "encrypt", "-o", sealed, written(t, "notes.txt", "the secret\n"))
+
+	for _, name := range []string{"/dev/stdout", "/dev/fd/1"} {
+		appendedThrough(t, name, sealed)
+	}
+}
+
+// appendedThrough decrypts sealed with -o name while the tool's standard
+// output is appended to a file that already has contents, as the shell's
+// ">> notes.out" does, and checks that the file is the same one, with
+// the same mode, and holds its earlier contents and then the output.
+func appendedThrough(t *testing.T, name, sealed string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	// A mode of its own, so that a replaced file would show.
+	const ownMode = 0o644
+
+	existing := written(t, "notes.out", "what was already there\n")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(existing, ownMode))
+
+	before, err := os.Stat(existing)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	//nolint:gosec // the test made this path itself
+	appended, err := os.OpenFile(existing, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND, 0)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	defer func() { _ = appended.Close() }()
+
+	//nolint:gosec // this test's own binary as the tool
+	command := exec.CommandContext(
+		t.Context(), os.Args[0], "age", "decrypt", "-o", name, sealed,
+	)
+
+	command.Env = append(os.Environ(), runAsTool+"=1")
+	command.Stdout = appended
+
+	require.NoError(t, command.Run(), name)
+	require.Equal(t,
+		"what was already there\nthe secret\n", read(t, existing), name,
+	)
+
+	after, err := os.Stat(existing)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.True(t, os.SameFile(before, after), name)
+	require.Equal(t, os.FileMode(ownMode), after.Mode().Perm(), name)
+}
+
 func TestASignalStopsAnEncryptionAndLeavesNoFile(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
 

internal/cli/cli.go

@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ func init() {
 // still runs, and "age encrypt -o" and "age decrypt -o" while they
 // write a new file to rename over the named one, so the unfinished file
 // is removed.
+//
+// At the mnemonic prompt the signal is caught only to put the terminal
+// back, and then ends the tool as above.
 func Main() int {
 	err := Root().Execute()
 	if err == nil {

internal/cli/cli_test.go

@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@ package cli_test
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-	bip39 "github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39"
 	"golang.org/x/crypto/ssh"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/bip39"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/childmnemonic"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/cli"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/derive"
@@ -33,6 +34,14 @@ const (
 	twentyFour = 24
 )
 
+// tooLarge is the smallest key index with no hardened child.
+const tooLarge = "2147483648"
+
+// failingMnemonicCommand fails loudly, so a run that looks for the
+// mnemonic ends with that failure. A run that ends with the refusal of
+// an argument instead shows that the argument was checked first.
+const failingMnemonicCommand = "echo the mnemonic was looked for >&2; exit 1"
+
 // example returns the mnemonic the README gives its test vectors for:
 // eleven abandons and about.
 func example() string {
@@ -98,12 +107,75 @@ func TestThePrivateKeyMatchesThePublicOne(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, vectorOne, back)
 }
 
+// The mnemonic command fails in these runs, so the refusal of the index
+// shows that it was checked before the mnemonic was looked for. The age
+// commands have a test of their own.
 func TestAnIndexWithNoHardenedChildIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, failingMnemonicCommand)
+
+	for _, args := range [][]string{
+		{subcommand, "pub", "-n", tooLarge},
+		{subcommand, "priv", "-n", tooLarge},
+		{subcommand, installing, "-n", tooLarge, host},
+		{subcommand, "to", "-n", tooLarge, host},
+		{"mnemonic", "-n", tooLarge},
+	} {
+		name := strings.Join(args, " ")
+
+		out, err := execute(t, args...)
+		require.ErrorIs(t, err, derive.ErrIndexTooLarge, name)
+		require.Empty(t, out, name)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnIndexWithALeadingZeroIsDecimal(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
 
-	out, err := execute(t, "ssh", "pub", "-n", "2147483648")
+	line := run(t, "ssh", "pub", "-n", "010")
-	require.ErrorIs(t, err, derive.ErrIndexTooLarge)
+	require.Equal(t, run(t, "ssh", "pub", "-n", "10"), line)
-	require.Empty(t, out)
+	require.True(t,
+		strings.HasSuffix(strings.TrimSpace(line), " keyfunc/ssh/10"),
+	)
+}
+
+// The mnemonic command in these runs fails, so a refusal naming the
+// flag shows that the number was refused before the mnemonic was
+// looked for.
+func TestAnIndexThatIsNotDecimalDigitsIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for _, index := range []string{"0x10", "1_0", "+1", "-1", ""} {
+		t.Run(index, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			out, err := execute(t,
+				"ssh", "pub", "-n", index, "--mnemonic-command", "exit 1",
+			)
+			require.ErrorIs(t, err, strconv.ErrSyntax)
+			require.ErrorContains(t, err, "--index")
+			require.Empty(t, out)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// Neither a command group nor --version reads the index, so these
+// show that it is refused while the flags are parsed.
+func TestAnIndexNotInDecimalIsRefusedBeforeAnyCommandRuns(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for _, args := range [][]string{
+		{"ssh", "-n", "0x10"},
+		{"-n", "0x10", "--version"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(strings.Join(args, " "), func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			out, err := execute(t, args...)
+			require.ErrorIs(t, err, strconv.ErrSyntax)
+			require.ErrorContains(t, err, "--index")
+			require.Empty(t, out)
+		})
+	}
 }
 
 func TestTheMnemonicCommandIsUsed(t *testing.T) {
@@ -130,14 +202,32 @@ func TestAChildMnemonicIsPrinted(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NotEqual(t, short, next)
 }
 
+// The mnemonic command fails in this run, so the refusal of the length
+// shows that it was checked before the mnemonic was looked for.
 func TestALengthTheToolDoesNotOfferIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, failingMnemonicCommand)
 
 	out, err := execute(t, "mnemonic", "--words", "15")
 	require.ErrorIs(t, err, childmnemonic.ErrWordCount)
 	require.Empty(t, out)
 }
 
+func TestTheWordCountIsDecimal(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
+
+	words := strings.Fields(run(t, "mnemonic", "--words", "012"))
+	require.Len(t, words, twelve)
+
+	// As for the index, the failing mnemonic command shows that the
+	// number was refused first.
+	out, err := execute(t,
+		"mnemonic", "--words", "0x18", "--mnemonic-command", "exit 1",
+	)
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, strconv.ErrSyntax)
+	require.ErrorContains(t, err, "--words")
+	require.Empty(t, out)
+}
+
 // run executes the tool with the given arguments and returns what it
 // wrote to standard output.
 func run(t *testing.T, args ...string) string {

internal/cli/mnemonic/mnemonic.go

@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ func Command() *cobra.Command {
 		},
 	}
 
-	cmd.Flags().Uint32(
+	words := options.Decimal(childmnemonic.DefaultWords)
-		"words", childmnemonic.DefaultWords,
+	cmd.Flags().Var(
+		&words, "words",
 		"how long the child mnemonic is: 12, 18 or 24 words",
 	)
 
@@ -51,6 +52,11 @@ func derived(cmd *cobra.Command) (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("reading the word count: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	err = childmnemonic.CheckWords(words)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
 	parent, err := options.Mnemonic(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err

internal/cli/options/options.go

@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ package options
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/derive"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/mnemonic"
 )
 
@@ -16,19 +18,26 @@ func Add(cmd *cobra.Command) {
 		"mnemonic-command", "",
 		"shell command whose output is the mnemonic",
 	)
-	cmd.PersistentFlags().Uint32P(
+	cmd.PersistentFlags().VarP(
-		"index", "n", 0,
+		new(Decimal), "index", "n",
 		"which key to derive",
 	)
 }
 
-// Index returns the key index the user asked for.
+// Index returns the key index the user asked for, and refuses one above
+// derive.MaxIndex. Every command calls it before it looks for the
+// mnemonic.
 func Index(cmd *cobra.Command) (uint32, error) {
 	index, err := cmd.Flags().GetUint32("index")
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0, fmt.Errorf("reading the index: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	err = derive.CheckIndex(index)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
 	return index, nil
 }
 
@@ -41,3 +50,33 @@ func Mnemonic(cmd *cobra.Command) (string, error) {
 
 	return mnemonic.Read(cmd.Context(), command)
 }
+
+// Decimal is a flag value for a number written in decimal digits only.
+// The flag library's own uint32 flags read 010 as octal 8 and also
+// take 0x10 or 1_0.
+type Decimal uint32
+
+// String returns the number in decimal digits.
+func (d *Decimal) String() string {
+	return strconv.FormatUint(uint64(*d), 10)
+}
+
+// Set reads text as a decimal number that fits in 32 bits: a leading
+// zero is still decimal, and a base prefix, an underscore or a sign is
+// refused.
+func (d *Decimal) Set(text string) error {
+	number, err := strconv.ParseUint(text, 10, 32)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	*d = Decimal(number)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Type is what --help shows as the flag's type, and what GetUint32
+// checks before it reads the value back.
+func (d *Decimal) Type() string {
+	return "uint32"
+}

internal/cli/prompt_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+package cli_test
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"strings"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/creack/pty"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"golang.org/x/term"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/mnemonic"
+)
+
+// TestEndOfInputAtThePromptEndsTheTool starts "age pub" and, at the
+// prompt, types Ctrl-D. The tool has to end with status 1, say that the
+// mnemonic is empty, and leave the terminal set as it found it, so with
+// echo on again.
+//
+// pty.Open returns the two ends of a new terminal: tty is the end the
+// tool uses as its terminal, and ptmx the end the test reads what the
+// terminal shows from and types into.
+func TestEndOfInputAtThePromptEndsTheTool(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, "")
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
+
+	ptmx, tty, err := pty.Open()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	defer func() { _ = ptmx.Close() }()
+	defer func() { _ = tty.Close() }()
+
+	before, err := term.GetState(int(tty.Fd()))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	command, terminal := prompted(t, ptmx, tty)
+
+	_, err = ptmx.WriteString("\x04") // Ctrl-D
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	waitForTool(t, "Ctrl-D at the prompt", command)
+	require.Equal(t, failedStatus, command.ProcessState.ExitCode())
+
+	after, err := term.GetState(int(tty.Fd()))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Equal(t, before, after, "the terminal settings were not restored")
+
+	// With the tool ended and this end closed too, ptmx gives what is
+	// left on the terminal and then an error.
+	require.NoError(t, tty.Close())
+
+	said, _ := io.ReadAll(terminal)
+	require.Contains(t, string(said), mnemonic.ErrEmpty.Error())
+}
+
+// TestASignalAtThePromptPutsTheTerminalBack starts "age pub" and, at
+// the prompt, once the tool has turned echo off, sends it SIGINT. The
+// tool has to be ended by SIGINT, which a shell reports as status 130,
+// and leave the terminal set as it found it, so with echo on again.
+func TestASignalAtThePromptPutsTheTerminalBack(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, "")
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
+
+	ptmx, tty, err := pty.Open()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	defer func() { _ = ptmx.Close() }()
+	defer func() { _ = tty.Close() }()
+
+	before, err := term.GetState(int(tty.Fd()))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	command, _ := prompted(t, ptmx, tty)
+
+	// The prompt is shown just before echo is turned off, and the
+	// signal has to come while it is off.
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		now, err := term.GetState(int(tty.Fd()))
+
+		return err == nil && !assert.ObjectsAreEqual(before, now)
+	}, 5*time.Second, 5*time.Millisecond, "the tool did not turn echo off")
+
+	require.NoError(t, command.Process.Signal(syscall.SIGINT))
+	waitForTool(t, "SIGINT at the prompt", command)
+
+	status, ok := command.ProcessState.Sys().(syscall.WaitStatus)
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	require.True(t, status.Signaled(), "the tool was not ended by the signal")
+	require.Equal(t, syscall.SIGINT, status.Signal())
+
+	after, err := term.GetState(int(tty.Fd()))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Equal(t, before, after, "the terminal settings were not restored")
+}
+
+// prompted starts "age pub" as a subprocess, for a test that has set no
+// mnemonic, with the terminal's tty end on all three streams, and
+// returns once the tool has shown the prompt. The reader returned reads
+// what the terminal shows from its ptmx end. Reading ptmx stops at a
+// deadline, so a prompt that never comes fails the test instead of
+// hanging it.
+func prompted(t *testing.T, ptmx, tty *os.File) (*exec.Cmd, *bufio.Reader) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	require.NoError(t, ptmx.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(10*time.Second)))
+
+	//nolint:gosec // this test's own binary as the tool
+	command := exec.CommandContext(t.Context(), os.Args[0], "age", "pub")
+
+	command.Env = append(os.Environ(), runAsTool+"=1")
+	command.Stdin = tty
+	command.Stdout = tty
+	command.Stderr = tty
+
+	require.NoError(t, command.Start())
+
+	var shown string
+
+	terminal := bufio.NewReader(ptmx)
+	for !strings.HasSuffix(shown, "mnemonic: ") {
+		char, err := terminal.ReadByte()
+		require.NoError(t, err, "the tool did not prompt: %q", shown)
+
+		shown += string(char)
+	}
+
+	return command, terminal
+}

internal/cli/ssh/install.go

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/cli/signals"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/mnemonic"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/signals"
 )
 
 // Where the key goes on the host and what the file it arrives in is
@@ -49,6 +50,20 @@ var ErrCannotEnter = errors.New(
 	"~/.ssh is there on the host but cannot be entered",
 )
 
+// ErrSymlink is the refusal of a host whose authorized_keys is a
+// symlink: the rename that puts the new file in place would replace the
+// link itself, and the file it points at would never get the key.
+var ErrSymlink = errors.New(
+	"~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the host is a symlink, which the tool " +
+		"leaves alone",
+)
+
+// ErrStrayArgument is the refusal of anything but the host before --,
+// which would otherwise be handed to sftp in front of the host.
+var ErrStrayArgument = errors.New(
+	"only the host goes before --; options for sftp go after --",
+)
+
 // install returns the command that adds the public key to a host.
 func install() *cobra.Command {
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
@@ -60,7 +75,22 @@ func install() *cobra.Command {
 			"beside it which is then renamed over it. Nothing is run " +
 			"on the host. Anything after -- is given to sftp " +
 			"unchanged, which is where the port goes (-P).",
-		Args: cobra.MinimumNArgs(1),
+		Args: cobra.MatchAll(
+			cobra.MinimumNArgs(1),
+			func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+				// ArgsLenAtDash is -1 when there is no --.
+				before := cmd.ArgsLenAtDash()
+				if before == -1 {
+					before = len(args)
+				}
+
+				if before != 1 {
+					return ErrStrayArgument
+				}
+
+				return nil
+			},
+		),
 		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 			key, comment, err := derived(cmd)
 			if err != nil {
@@ -191,7 +221,7 @@ func session(
 
 	//nolint:gosec // the options are the user's own, meant for sftp
 	command := exec.CommandContext(cmd.Context(), "sftp", argv...)
-	command.Env = childEnv()
+	command.Env = mnemonic.ChildEnv()
 	command.Stdin = strings.NewReader(strings.Join(batch, "\n") + "\n")
 	command.Stdout = &said
 	command.Stderr = &said
@@ -256,14 +286,23 @@ func merge(content, line string) (string, bool) {
 // it can be looked up, not even ".". The first listing of such a
 // directory comes up empty, as the server leaves out every name it
 // cannot look up.
+//
+// The first listing is a long one, which shows an authorized_keys that
+// is a symlink as one. That is refused before anything else sftp said
+// is read, so a link the get could not follow is refused in the same
+// words.
 func fetch(
 	cmd *cobra.Command, host string, options []string, into string,
 ) (string, bool, error) {
 	said, err := session(cmd, host, options, []string{
-		"ls -1 " + directory,
+		"ls -n " + directory,
 		"ls -1 " + directory + "/.",
 		"get " + authorized + " " + quoted(into),
 	})
+	if symlinked(said) {
+		return "", false, ErrSymlink
+	}
+
 	if err != nil {
 		if listingNotFound(said, directory) {
 			return "", false, nil
@@ -326,6 +365,22 @@ func reportedCannotList(line string) (string, bool) {
 	return strings.TrimSuffix(strings.TrimPrefix(line, before), after), true
 }
 
+// symlinked says whether the long listing of .ssh shows authorized_keys
+// as a symlink. With -n the client writes each line itself, as ls -l
+// does, whatever the server: the type comes first, "l" for a symlink,
+// and the path as the listing named it comes last.
+func symlinked(said string) bool {
+	for line := range strings.Lines(said) {
+		fields := strings.Fields(line)
+		if len(fields) > 0 && strings.HasPrefix(fields[0], "l") &&
+			fields[len(fields)-1] == authorized {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
 // absent says whether sftp reported the file that was asked for as
 // not being there, which is the one failure of the fetch that is read
 // as an empty authorized_keys. The reading is taken only from the

internal/cli/ssh/install_test.go

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import "testing"
 const (
 	echoed = `sftp> get .ssh/authorized_keys "/tmp/keyfunc/authorized_keys"
 `
-	listed  = "sftp> ls -1 .ssh\n"
+	listed  = "sftp> ls -n .ssh\n"
 	warning = `Warning: Identity file /gone not accessible: ` +
 		"No such file or directory.\n"
 )

internal/cli/ssh/ssh.go

@@ -3,13 +3,10 @@ package ssh
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"os"
-	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/cli/options"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/derive"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/mnemonic"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/sshkey"
 )
 
@@ -87,26 +84,6 @@ func write(cmd *cobra.Command, text string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// childEnv is the tool's environment with the mnemonic variables taken
-// out, for the ssh and sftp children it starts. "ssh to" exists so the
-// private key never leaves the tool; the mnemonic, from either variable,
-// must not leave it either.
-func childEnv() []string {
-	environ := os.Environ()
-	kept := make([]string, 0, len(environ))
-
-	for _, entry := range environ {
-		name, _, _ := strings.Cut(entry, "=")
-		if name == mnemonic.Variable || name == mnemonic.CommandVariable {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		kept = append(kept, entry)
-	}
-
-	return kept
-}
-
 // addComment gives a command its comment flag.
 func addComment(cmd *cobra.Command) {
 	cmd.Flags().String(

internal/cli/ssh/to.go

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/cli/signals"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/mnemonic"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/signals"
 )
 
 // StatusError says the tool should end with the status ssh ended with.
@@ -57,8 +58,13 @@ func to() *cobra.Command {
 
 			defer served.Stop()
 
+			// IdentitiesOnly yes in the user's ssh configuration
+			// would keep the agent's key from being offered. The
+			// agent holds only the derived key, so turning it off
+			// adds no other key.
 			argv := slices.Concat([]string{
 				"-o", "IdentityAgent=" + served.Socket(),
+				"-o", "IdentitiesOnly=no",
 			}, args)
 
 			return connect(ctx, argv)
@@ -79,7 +85,7 @@ func to() *cobra.Command {
 func connect(ctx context.Context, argv []string) error {
 	//nolint:gosec // the arguments are the user's own, meant for ssh
 	command := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "ssh", argv...)
-	command.Env = childEnv()
+	command.Env = mnemonic.ChildEnv()
 	command.Stdin = os.Stdin
 	command.Stdout = os.Stdout
 	command.Stderr = os.Stderr

internal/cli/ssh_test.go

@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ const marker = "KEYFUNC_TEST_MARKER"
 //
 // The listing and the two ways a get can fail are worded as the
 // OpenSSH client words them, each naming the path the server expanded.
+// A long listing (-n) writes each entry as the client does, its type
+// first, so that a symlink shows as one.
 // A listing fails one way when .ssh is not there and another when it is
 // there but shut to the user; the first is the only failure read as a
 // host with no file. A get fails one way for a file that is not there,
@@ -137,8 +139,7 @@ while IFS= read -r line; do
 	worked=yes
 	case "$1" in
 	ls)
-		dir=$2
+		dir=$3
-		[ "$dir" = -1 ] && dir=$3
 		if [ ! -e "$home/$dir" ]; then
 			worked=no
 			printf 'Can'\''t ls: "%s" not found\n' "$home/$dir" >&2
@@ -149,7 +150,13 @@ while IFS= read -r line; do
 		else
 			for entry in "$home/$dir"/*; do
 				[ -e "$entry" ] || continue
-				printf '%s/%s\n' "$dir" "$(basename "$entry")"
+				name="$dir/$(basename "$entry")"
+				if [ "$2" = -n ]; then
+					printf '%s    ? someone  users  0 Oct  4 15:44 %s\n' \
+						"$(stat -c '%A' "$entry")" "$name"
+				else
+					printf '%s\n' "$name"
+				fi
 			done
 		fi
 		;;
@@ -306,7 +313,7 @@ func TestTheFileIsUploadedBesideTheOldOneAndThenRenamedOverIt(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// The listing fails on a host with no .ssh, so the get never runs;
 	// the write session then makes the directory and puts the file.
-	require.Equal(t, "ls -1 .ssh", sent[0])
+	require.Equal(t, "ls -n .ssh", sent[0])
 	require.Equal(t, "-mkdir .ssh", sent[1])
 	require.Equal(t, "chmod 700 .ssh", sent[2])
 	require.Equal(t, "put", strings.Fields(sent[3])[0])
@@ -372,6 +379,59 @@ func TestADirectoryThatCannotBeEnteredIsRefusedBeforeAnyUpload(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, notADirectory, read(t, inTheWay))
 }
 
+func TestASymlinkedFileIsRefusedBeforeAnyUpload(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
+
+	pretend := pretendHost(t)
+
+	// The file the link points at, which the key would never reach.
+	target := filepath.Join(pretend.home, "keys")
+	require.NoError(t,
+		os.WriteFile(target, []byte("somebody else\n"), fileMode),
+	)
+
+	directory := filepath.Join(pretend.home, keptUnder)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Mkdir(directory, directoryMode))
+
+	link := filepath.Join(directory, keptIn)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(target, link))
+
+	printed, _, err := attempt(t, host)
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, ssh.ErrSymlink)
+	require.Empty(t, printed)
+
+	// The read and nothing after it: no upload was tried, the link
+	// still points where it did, and what it points at is unchanged.
+	require.Equal(t, 1, connections(t, pretend))
+
+	pointsAt, err := os.Readlink(link)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Equal(t, target, pointsAt)
+	require.Equal(t, "somebody else\n", read(t, target))
+}
+
+func TestAnArgumentBesideTheHostIsRefusedBeforeAnyConnection(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
+
+	pretend := pretendHost(t)
+
+	runs := [][]string{
+		{host, "frank@example.com"},
+		{host, "2222"},
+		{host, "frank@example.com", "--", "-P", "2222"},
+		{"--", host},
+	}
+
+	for _, args := range runs {
+		printed, _, err := attempt(t, args...)
+		require.ErrorIs(t, err, ssh.ErrStrayArgument)
+		require.Empty(t, printed)
+	}
+
+	// sftp was never started, so nothing was uploaded.
+	require.NoFileExists(t, pretend.arguments)
+}
+
 func TestAnExistingDirectoryKeepsItsModeAndIsNotRemade(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
 
@@ -527,7 +587,7 @@ func TestSSHIsPointedAtTheAgentAndItsStatusIsHandedOn(t *testing.T) {
 
 	given := recorded(t, arguments)
 	require.Equal(t, "-o", given[0])
-	require.Equal(t, []string{host, remoteCommand}, given[2:])
+	require.Equal(t, []string{host, remoteCommand}, given[4:])
 
 	// The stand-in wrote the path down only because there really was
 	// a socket there while it ran.
@@ -536,6 +596,26 @@ func TestSSHIsPointedAtTheAgentAndItsStatusIsHandedOn(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoDirExists(t, filepath.Dir(socket))
 }
 
+func TestIdentitiesOnlyIsTurnedOffBeforeTheHost(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
+
+	arguments, _ := pretendCall(t)
+
+	_, err := execute(t, subcommand, "to", host, remoteCommand)
+
+	var passed ssh.StatusError
+
+	require.ErrorAs(t, err, &passed)
+
+	// IdentitiesOnly yes in the user's ssh configuration keeps ssh
+	// from offering the agent's key. An option given before the host
+	// wins over the configuration.
+	given := recorded(t, arguments)
+	require.Equal(t,
+		[]string{"-o", "IdentitiesOnly=no", host, remoteCommand}, given[2:],
+	)
+}
+
 func TestTheToolEndsWithTheStatusSSHEndedWith(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, example())
 

internal/derive/derive.go

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/pkg/bip85"
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil/hdkeychain"
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg"
-	bip39 "github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/bip39"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/secret/pkg/bip85"
 )
 
 const (

internal/mnemonic/mnemonic.go

@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
-	bip39 "github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39"
 	"golang.org/x/term"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/bip39"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -29,6 +30,28 @@ var ErrMissing = errors.New(
 	"no mnemonic given and standard input is not a terminal",
 )
 
+// The lengths a BIP-39 mnemonic may have.
+const (
+	twelve     = 12
+	fifteen    = 15
+	eighteen   = 18
+	twentyOne  = 21
+	twentyFour = 24
+)
+
+// ErrEmpty is returned for a mnemonic with no words in it, such as the
+// output of a mnemonic command that printed nothing.
+var ErrEmpty = errors.New("the mnemonic is empty")
+
+// ErrWordCount is returned for a mnemonic with a number of words that
+// BIP-39 does not allow.
+var ErrWordCount = errors.New("a mnemonic has 12, 15, 18, 21 or 24 words")
+
+// ErrUnknownWord is returned for a mnemonic with a word that is not on
+// the BIP-39 English word list. The error gives the word's position,
+// never the word, so the mnemonic stays out of the message.
+var ErrUnknownWord = errors.New("not on the BIP-39 word list")
+
 // ErrChecksum is returned for a mnemonic that fails the BIP-39
 // checksum.
 var ErrChecksum = errors.New("the mnemonic fails its BIP-39 checksum")
@@ -63,6 +86,7 @@ func Read(ctx context.Context, command string) (string, error) {
 func run(ctx context.Context, command string) (string, error) {
 	//nolint:gosec // running the user's own command is the point
 	shell := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "sh", "-c", command)
+	shell.Env = ChildEnv()
 
 	var complaint bytes.Buffer
 
@@ -83,6 +107,25 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, command string) (string, error) {
 	return string(out), nil
 }
 
+// ChildEnv is the tool's environment with the mnemonic variables taken
+// out, for the programs the tool starts: the mnemonic command, ssh and
+// sftp. The mnemonic, from either variable, never leaves the tool.
+func ChildEnv() []string {
+	environ := os.Environ()
+	kept := make([]string, 0, len(environ))
+
+	for _, entry := range environ {
+		name, _, _ := strings.Cut(entry, "=")
+		if name == Variable || name == CommandVariable {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		kept = append(kept, entry)
+	}
+
+	return kept
+}
+
 // ask prompts on the terminal with echo turned off.
 func ask() (string, error) {
 	fd := int(os.Stdin.Fd())
@@ -93,7 +136,7 @@ func ask() (string, error) {
 
 	fmt.Fprint(os.Stderr, "mnemonic: ")
 
-	typed, err := term.ReadPassword(fd)
+	typed, err := readWithoutEcho()
 
 	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr)
 
@@ -101,18 +144,39 @@ func ask() (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("reading the mnemonic: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	return checked(string(typed))
+	return checked(typed)
 }
 
 // checked joins the words with single spaces, whatever whitespace
 // separated them, since the seed is computed over the string itself,
-// and refuses a mnemonic that does not pass the BIP-39 checksum.
+// and refuses a mnemonic that is not a valid BIP-39 mnemonic, with an
-func checked(words string) (string, error) {
+// error that says what is wrong with it.
-	words = strings.Join(strings.Fields(words), " ")
+func checked(text string) (string, error) {
+	words := strings.Fields(text)
 
-	if !bip39.IsMnemonicValid(words) {
+	switch len(words) {
+	case 0:
+		return "", ErrEmpty
+	case twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twentyOne, twentyFour:
+	default:
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%w, not %d", ErrWordCount, len(words))
+	}
+
+	wordList := bip39.English()
+
+	for i, word := range words {
+		if !slices.Contains(wordList, word) {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf(
+				"word %d of the mnemonic is %w", i+1, ErrUnknownWord,
+			)
+		}
+	}
+
+	joined := strings.Join(words, " ")
+
+	if !bip39.IsMnemonicValid(joined) {
 		return "", ErrChecksum
 	}
 
-	return words, nil
+	return joined, nil
 }

internal/mnemonic/mnemonic_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package mnemonic_test
 
 import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -61,6 +63,31 @@ func TestTheMnemonicInTheEnvironmentComesLast(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, fromVariable, words)
 }
 
+func TestTheMnemonicIsNotHandedToTheCommand(t *testing.T) {
+	const marker = "KEYFUNC_TEST_MARKER"
+
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, prints(fromCommandVariable))
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, fromVariable)
+	t.Setenv(marker, "reaches the command")
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "environment")
+
+	words, err := mnemonic.Read(
+		t.Context(), "env > '"+path+"'; "+prints(example()),
+	)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Equal(t, example(), words)
+
+	//nolint:gosec // the path is a temporary file of the test's own
+	content, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	environment := string(content)
+	require.NotContains(t, environment, mnemonic.Variable+"=")
+	require.NotContains(t, environment, mnemonic.CommandVariable+"=")
+	require.Contains(t, environment, marker+"=")
+}
+
 func TestAFailingCommandSaysWhatWentWrong(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, "")
@@ -70,6 +97,27 @@ func TestAFailingCommandSaysWhatWentWrong(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Contains(t, err.Error(), "nothing here")
 }
 
+func TestValidMnemonicsOf15To24WordsAreAccepted(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
+
+	// abandon repeated, then the last word that makes the checksum
+	// match: 15, 18, 21 and 24 words.
+	valid := []string{
+		strings.Repeat("abandon ", 14) + "address",
+		strings.Repeat("abandon ", 17) + "agent",
+		strings.Repeat("abandon ", 20) + "admit",
+		strings.Repeat("abandon ", 23) + "art",
+	}
+
+	for _, words := range valid {
+		t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, words)
+
+		got, err := mnemonic.Read(t.Context(), "")
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.Equal(t, words, got)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestABadChecksumIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, broken())
@@ -78,6 +126,38 @@ func TestABadChecksumIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	require.ErrorIs(t, err, mnemonic.ErrChecksum)
 }
 
+func TestACommandThatPrintsNothingGivesAnEmptyMnemonic(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, "")
+
+	_, err := mnemonic.Read(t.Context(), "true")
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, mnemonic.ErrEmpty)
+	require.NotContains(t, err.Error(), "checksum")
+}
+
+func TestAWrongWordCountIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, strings.Repeat("abandon ", 3))
+
+	_, err := mnemonic.Read(t.Context(), "")
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, mnemonic.ErrWordCount)
+	require.ErrorContains(t, err, "not 3")
+	require.NotContains(t, err.Error(), "checksum")
+}
+
+func TestAWordNotOnTheListIsNamedByPositionOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	const typo = "abuot"
+
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
+	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, strings.Repeat("abandon ", 11)+typo)
+
+	_, err := mnemonic.Read(t.Context(), "")
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, mnemonic.ErrUnknownWord)
+	require.ErrorContains(t, err, "word 12 ")
+	require.NotContains(t, err.Error(), typo)
+	require.NotContains(t, err.Error(), "checksum")
+}
+
 func TestNothingToReadAndNobodyToAsk(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.CommandVariable, "")
 	t.Setenv(mnemonic.Variable, "")

internal/mnemonic/prompt_notunix.go

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+//go:build !aix && !darwin && !dragonfly && !freebsd && !linux && !netbsd && !openbsd && !solaris && !zos
+
+package mnemonic
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"golang.org/x/term"
+)
+
+// readWithoutEcho reads one line from the terminal on standard input
+// with echo turned off, through term.ReadPassword, on the systems
+// prompt_unix.go is not built for, such as Windows.
+func readWithoutEcho() (string, error) {
+	typed, err := term.ReadPassword(int(os.Stdin.Fd()))
+
+	return string(typed), err
+}

internal/mnemonic/prompt_unix.go

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+//go:build aix || darwin || dragonfly || freebsd || linux || netbsd || openbsd || solaris || zos
+
+package mnemonic
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"os/signal"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/keyfunc/internal/signals"
+)
+
+// readWithoutEcho reads one line from the terminal on standard input
+// with echo turned off. The line ends at a newline or at the end of
+// input (Ctrl-D). The terminal is set as term.ReadPassword sets it;
+// ReadPassword itself is not used here because it never sees the end
+// of input and goes on waiting.
+//
+// Meanwhile SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP are caught, as signals.Notify
+// catches them. One that has arrived by the time the line is read puts
+// the terminal back as it was and then ends the tool, as it would have
+// ended it if it were not caught.
+func readWithoutEcho() (string, error) {
+	fd := int(os.Stdin.Fd())
+
+	settings, err := unix.IoctlGetTermios(fd, ioctlReadTermios)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("reading the terminal settings: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Caught from before echo is turned off, so that no signal can end
+	// the tool with echo off.
+	received := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
+	signals.Notify(received)
+
+	defer signal.Stop(received)
+
+	hidden := *settings
+	hidden.Lflag &^= unix.ECHO
+	hidden.Lflag |= unix.ICANON | unix.ISIG
+	hidden.Iflag |= unix.ICRNL
+
+	err = unix.IoctlSetTermios(fd, ioctlWriteTermios, &hidden)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("turning echo off: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	var (
+		typed  string
+		failed error
+	)
+
+	read := make(chan struct{})
+
+	go func() {
+		// With ICANON set, a read from the terminal returns at most one
+		// line, so the buffer takes nothing past the newline.
+		typed, failed = bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin).ReadString('\n')
+
+		close(read)
+	}()
+
+	var ending os.Signal
+
+	select {
+	case <-read:
+	case ending = <-received:
+	}
+
+	// The terminal is put back while the signals are still caught, so
+	// that none can end the tool with echo off. Stop returns only once
+	// every signal the tool has received has been handed over, so one
+	// that came as the line was read is in received by then.
+	_ = unix.IoctlSetTermios(fd, ioctlWriteTermios, settings)
+
+	signal.Stop(received)
+
+	if len(received) > 0 {
+		ending = <-received
+	}
+
+	if ending != nil {
+		return "", endBy(ending)
+	}
+
+	if errors.Is(failed, io.EOF) {
+		return typed, nil
+	}
+
+	return typed, failed
+}
+
+// endBy sends the tool the signal again, now that nothing catches it,
+// so that it ends the tool, and waits for that. It returns only if the
+// signal could not be sent.
+func endBy(ending os.Signal) error {
+	tool, err := os.FindProcess(os.Getpid())
+	if err == nil {
+		err = tool.Signal(ending)
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("ending the tool by %s: %w", ending, err)
+	}
+
+	select {}
+}

internal/mnemonic/termios_bsd.go

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+//go:build darwin || dragonfly || freebsd || netbsd || openbsd
+
+package mnemonic
+
+import "golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+
+// The requests that read and set the terminal settings, as
+// golang.org/x/term names them.
+const (
+	ioctlReadTermios  = unix.TIOCGETA
+	ioctlWriteTermios = unix.TIOCSETA
+)

internal/mnemonic/termios_other.go

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+//go:build aix || linux || solaris || zos
+
+package mnemonic
+
+import "golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+
+// The requests that read and set the terminal settings, as
+// golang.org/x/term names them.
+const (
+	ioctlReadTermios  = unix.TCGETS
+	ioctlWriteTermios = unix.TCSETS
+)

internal/signals/signals.go

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-// Package signals catches the signals that end the tool, for the
+// Package signals catches SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP, the signals that
-// commands that clean up before they end.
+// end the tool, for the commands that clean up before they end and for
+// the mnemonic prompt, which puts the terminal back before the signal
+// ends the tool. Go keeps an inherited ignore only for SIGHUP and
+// SIGINT, so a SIGTERM the tool was started with set to be ignored is
+// not left ignored.
 package signals
 
 import (
@@ -11,8 +15,8 @@ import (
 
 // Context is signal.NotifyContext for SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP: the
 // context it returns is cancelled when one of them arrives, and stop
-// stops catching them. It leaves out any of the three the tool was
+// stops catching them. It leaves out SIGHUP or SIGINT if the tool was
-// started with set to be ignored, as nohup does with SIGHUP, because
+// started with it set to be ignored, as nohup does with SIGHUP, because
 // catching a signal turns an ignored one back on and would end a run
 // that was meant to survive it.
 func Context(parent context.Context) (context.Context, context.CancelFunc) {
@@ -37,8 +41,8 @@ func Notify(c chan<- os.Signal) {
 	}
 }
 
-// caught returns those of SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP that the tool was
+// caught returns SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP, less any that
-// not started with set to be ignored.
+// signal.Ignored reports as ignored.
 func caught() []os.Signal {
 	endings := []os.Signal{syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM, syscall.SIGHUP}
 	kept := make([]os.Signal, 0, len(endings))

package.json

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+  "license": "MIT",
   "devDependencies": {
     "prettier": "3.8.1"
   }