Method save

src/borg/crypto/key.py:703–721

(self, target, passphrase, algorithm, create=False)

        return success

    def save(self, target, passphrase, algorithm, create=False):
        key_data = self._save(passphrase, algorithm)
        if self.STORAGE == KeyBlobStorage.KEYFILE:
            if create and os.path.isfile(target):
                # if a new keyfile key repository is created, ensure that an existing keyfile of another
                # keyfile key repo is not accidentally overwritten by careless use of the BORG_KEY_FILE env var.
                # see issue #6036
                raise Error('Aborting because key in "%s" already exists.' % target)
            with SaveFile(target) as fd:
                fd.write(f"{self.FILE_ID} {bin_to_hex(self.repository_id)}\n")
                fd.write(key_data)
                fd.write("\n")
        elif self.STORAGE == KeyBlobStorage.REPO:
            self.logically_encrypted = passphrase != ""  # nosec B105
            key_data = key_data.encode("utf-8")  # remote repo: msgpack issue #99, giving bytes
            target.save_key(key_data)
        else:
            raise TypeError("Unsupported borg key storage type")
        self.target = target

    def remove(self, target):
        if self.STORAGE == KeyBlobStorage.KEYFILE: