Installation

Requirements

PocketProtector requires Python 3.9 or newer.

Dependencies are installed automatically:

• PyNaCl – cryptographic operations (Curve25519, Argon2id)

• ruamel.yaml – YAML parsing and serialization

• attrs – data classes

• boltons – utility functions

• schema – data validation

• face – CLI framework

Install from PyPI

pip install pocket_protector

Verify the installation:

$ pprotect version
pocket_protector version 26.0.0

The package installs two equivalent console scripts: pprotect (short form) and pocket_protector.

Development install

To work on PocketProtector itself:

git clone https://github.com/mahmoud/pocket_protector.git
cd pocket_protector
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Run tests with:

pytest