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I’ve had good experiences with age [1]: it’s relatively easy to use and has sane defaults. [1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by barnabee · 2022-04-29 · in Ask HN: CLI Tool for File Encryption?

…to make secure operating systems and software, but nobody bothers. 0: https://noiseprotocol.org/ 1: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age 2: https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html 3: https://landlock.io/

comment by zie · 2022-04-28 · in WebAuthn Browser Support

I recommend age as well. It offers encrypting for recipients for whom you have public keys. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by ChrisGranger · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools

…likely it has undergone peer review and security audits, unlike new Rust crypto libraries. [1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age [2]: https://github.com/briansmith/ring

comment by marcus_cemes · 2022-04-02 · in Seriously, Stop Using RSA (2019)

I created a discussion for it here: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/discussions/404

comment by binwiederhier · 2022-03-25 · in Ask HN: Is there a portable encryption file format?

…arbitrary data [4]. All of these become useless the moment you start using short-lived keys. [1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age [2]: https://github.com/ryantm/agenix [3]: https://calebhearth.com/sign-git-with-ssh [4]:…

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-03-24 · in If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)

…all seem to have limited implementations in other languages. [1] https://github.com/google/tink [2] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by binwiederhier · 2022-03-24 · in Ask HN: Is there a portable encryption file format?

You can encrypt them using something like https://github.com/FiloSottile/age and then just store them in git. When you need to access them, just run "age -d .." If you're paranoid you can use GPG + a smart card like a yubikey, but its all…

comment by botanicalfriend · 2022-01-26 · in Ask HN: How do you archive secrets for your side projects?

…have nailed their identity to it? (For everything you think you should use PGP for please use Age - https://github.com/FiloSottile/age )

comment by seanieb · 2021-12-28 · in GnuPG used to ask for your support to help protect online privacy

Your network is MitM’d by some incompetently operated security product. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/370

comment by FiloSottile · 2021-12-17 · in Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG

…smaller. I guess it is thanks to ecliptic-curve encryption. [0]: https://github.com/str4d/rage [1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by pqb · 2021-12-17 · in Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager

…what you could do. Generate a new seed phrase on a hardware wallet. Encrypt the seed phrase using https://github.com/FiloSottile/age and print out the encrypted seed. Store the paper in a safety deposit box. Keep the hardware wallet at…

comment by pshc · 2021-11-24 · in Hamilton teen embroiled in FBI probe, fingered in $46M cryptocurrency theft

…as a subprocess plugin to https://github.com/str4d/rage (and hopefully https://github.com/FiloSottile/age once they think plugins are stable in enough to go in the reference implementation). The rage author also wrote their https

comment by yencabulator · 2021-11-18 · in Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys

Yes, with https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by fanf2 · 2021-11-13 · in Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys

…ssh-rsa and ssh-ed25519 SSH public keys, and decrypting with the respective private key file." -- https://github.com/FiloSottile/age#ssh-keys So, we see age does in fact re-use SSH keys for this unrelated purpose. And we see that, unlike…

comment by tialaramex · 2021-11-13 · in Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys

…and one of the neat features it has is the ability to encrypt to a GitHub user's pubkey[1]. [0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age [1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age#encrypting-to-a-github-us...

comment by oedmarap · 2021-11-13 · in Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys

…might be fine?). At any rate, I'm not too thrilled about the age projects stand on signatures: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/51 I strongly believe one of the main uses of encryption is enabling trust - and that implies trusted…

comment by e12e · 2021-08-24 · in Show HN: Kryptor – A simple, modern, and secure encryption tool

…For file encryption age is recommended. A frontend for it would be welcomed. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by Comevius · 2021-07-21 · in Take the initiative to protect privacy in your own hands

Good news, everyone! https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/commit/d164fef036a2d19280... It will be in the next release candidate.

comment by FiloSottile · 2021-06-08 · in PGP Marks 30th Anniversary

…It's old, it's clunky, it requires careful use to be safe. Why not use something more modern? 0. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by tuxxy · 2021-06-08 · in Sequoia 1.3

Thanks! Link to "age", for those who are interested: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by greenyoda · 2021-06-08 · in PGP Marks 30th Anniversary

…features. There are still some things I'm missing, but these are slowly being worked on[1,2]. [1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/137 [2]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/pull/132

comment by imiric · 2021-05-30 · in GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG

Meh, I would rather use age[0] 0: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by zaphar · 2021-05-17 · in The PGP Problem: A Critique (2020)

Age would be better for that: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by sodality2 · 2021-05-17 · in The PGP Problem: A Critique (2020)

…[1] https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cry... [2] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by FiloSottile · 2021-04-23 · in How to Interchange Ed25519 Keys

…encryption with an actually comprehensible CLI; thank you! [1]: https://github.com/str4d/rage [2]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by dejj · 2021-04-14 · in Pass: The standard Unix password manager

…Nice to see simplified and somewhat modernized tools like ( https://github.com/str4d/rage ) and ( https://github.com/FiloSottile/age ) The article that post mentions in the beginning also had some interesting perspectives, though a bit…

comment by okamiueru · 2021-03-12 · in Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone

…each repository: - https://github.com/apache/incubator-age/commit/bef50e5d86d45... (Mar 19, 2019) - https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/commit/06cbe4f91ea9843069... (Oct 6, 2019) What does this mean? Absolutely nothing.

comment by rzzzt · 2021-03-04 · in Apache Age: A Graph Extension for PostgreSQL

the projects are not related at all but this and https://github.com/FiloSottile/age have a name conflict.

comment by philsnow · 2021-03-04 · in Apache Age: A Graph Extension for PostgreSQL

You may wish to look at age: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by technion · 2021-01-13 · in Solarwind, Fireeye, Microsoft and Cisco leaks are offered for sale

A promising contender to "replace" GPG in which you might be interested is age: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age It's based on ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD and the author is well respected in the crypto community.

comment by da_big_ghey · 2020-11-29 · in GPG and Me (2015)

…pair? I've used it on a few projects where cryptographic flexibility wasn't necessary. [1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by woodruffw · 2020-10-17 · in Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash

Why? PGP needs to be deprecated in favor of things like AGE and Magic Wormhole. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by seanieb · 2020-09-12 · in OpenPGP in Rust: The Sequoia Project

Age is demonstrably better: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age Also, an informed analysis of PGP: https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

comment by wglb · 2020-09-12 · in Security by obscurity is underrated

From project page: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age#ssh-keys > (ssh-agent is not supported.) There is no way it integrates with smartcards.

comment by Snawoot · 2020-09-04 · in GnuPG 2.2.23

…- which one is the encryption community at large favoring more? (stability, code quality, etc.) https://github.com/FiloSottile/age https://github.com/str4d/rage

comment by gravitas · 2020-09-04 · in GnuPG 2.2.23

…transfer sensitive data over Bittorent, Age is a good tool for encrypting it before transmission. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by cpach · 2020-09-02 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

…subtle mistakes increases. That's why it's better to use tools that do it properly, like age ( https://github.com/FiloSottile/age )

comment by rakoo · 2020-07-06 · in PurritoBin: Ultra fast, minimalistic, encrypted command line paste-bin

Tink ( https://github.com/google/tink ) and Age ( https://github.com/FiloSottile/age ) are the obvious examples, although I think to some extent even things like the Signal Protocol apply. I'd call them both examples of applied…

comment by joshuamorton · 2020-07-01 · in Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias

Vaguely related for people who want simple secure encryption tools is Age: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by SEJeff · 2020-05-14 · in Saltpack – A modern crypto messaging format

…unfortunately. There is OpenBSD signify (or minisign) if you want signatures. There is also age - https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by gnu · 2020-05-08 · in Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?

…gnashing my teeth at the prospect of going back to PGP keys. Maybe there's some way to intersect https://github.com/FiloSottile/age and a git remote.

comment by frio · 2020-05-07 · in Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?

…[1]: https://filippo.io [2]: https://twitter.com/filosottile/status/1248110291751231488 [3]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

comment by pcr910303 · 2020-04-12 · in Re-Thinking Electronic Mail

…so there clearly is some threat this would protect against but I can't figure it out. [1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/59

comment by cyphar · 2020-03-01 · in A backup rotation filter for the Unix shell

…check out-of-band errors to see that the plaintext isn't safe Is that problem the same as this one? https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/59

comment by ubercow13 · 2020-02-19 · in Stop Using Encrypted Email

I saw these comments on age's GitHub page before seeing this post on HN, so not to worry. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/59

comment by ChrisGranger · 2019-12-31 · in A few comments on ‘age’

…able to skip unknown formats. (Recipient lines are currently under-specified in the spec. I opened https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/9 a while back for addressing this.) 6. The normalization notes are an artifact of an earlier…

comment by str4d · 2019-12-28 · in Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool

…< secret will encrypt using <user>'s GitHub SSH public keys. #1 http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net #2 https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/pull/43

comment by _paulc · 2019-12-28 · in Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool

…the CLI arguments of every other process on your system. I've filed an issue upstream about this: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/37 I've mentioned swap in my comment. It's a problem indeed. On Linux you can prevent memory…

comment by est31 · 2019-12-28 · in Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool

Because there's no link to the source code in the google document, here's the Github repo: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/

comment by bertman · 2019-10-07 · in A simple file encryption tool and format