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A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

125 mentions on Hacker News by 106 people: 23 stories, 102 comments · first 2019-10-07 · latest 2026-10-10

Mentions per year 125 mentions · busiest year 2021 (29)
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  1. ▲ 2
    A simple, modern, secure encryption tool (and Go library) small explicit keys
    story by Bluestein · 2026-09-25 · 0 comments
  2. ▲ 1
    Age v1.3.2 Is Out
    story by Sami_Lehtinen · 2026-08-29 · 0 comments
  3. ▲ 3
    Release age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)
    story by birdculture · 2025-12-28 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 5
    Release age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)
    story by todsacerdoti · 2025-12-27 · 0 comments
  5. ▲ 3
    Show HN: Generate age encryption keys with custom prefixes
    story by age123456gpg · 2025-08-18 · 0 comments
  6. ▲ 289
    Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library
    story by gjvc · 2024-08-04 · 121 comments
  7. ▲ 2
    Age: A simple, modern and secure encryption tool
    story by udev4096 · 2024-02-26 · 0 comments
  8. ▲ 126
    Age – a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library
    story by talonx · 2022-09-26 · 54 comments
  9. ▲ 2
    Age/scrypt_not_canonical_body.go at main · FiloSottile/age
    story by wglb · 2022-07-02 · 0 comments
  10. ▲ 113
    age v1.1.0-rc.1: plugin and YubiKeys support
    story by FiloSottile · 2022-06-11 · 33 comments
  11. ▲ 25
    Ask HN: CLI Tool for File Encryption?
    story by e12e · 2022-04-29 · 33 comments
  12. ▲ 4
    Age: simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
    story by modinfo · 2022-03-25 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 8
    Ask HN: Where to ask for feedback about a cryptography related tool
    story by ciprian_craciun · 2021-12-01 · 6 comments
  14. ▲ 1
    Age – simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library)
    story by ChrisArchitect · 2021-09-08 · 1 comment
  15. ▲ 5
    age 1.0.0 simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library
    story by ABS · 2021-09-06 · 2 comments
  16. ▲ 494
    Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption
    story by FiloSottile · 2021-09-06 · 88 comments
  17. ▲ 75
    Ask HN: In Emacs, is there an alternative to GPG encryption in Org Mode?
    story by timetosleep · 2021-06-25 · 38 comments
  18. ▲ 3
    Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and library
    story by bassdropvroom · 2021-04-10 · 0 comments
  19. ▲ 2
    Age v1.0.0 Release Candidate
    story by parsecs · 2021-03-10 · 0 comments
  20. ▲ 466
    Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
    story by nahikoa · 2019-12-27 · 197 comments
  21. ▲ 5
    Age Beta 1
    story by mises · 2019-12-27 · 0 comments
  22. ▲ 2
    Age - The PGP Replacement (alpha)
    story by mises · 2019-10-08 · 2 comments
  23. ▲ 4
    Alpha release of Age-tool – A small command line encryption utility made in Go
    story by playeren · 2019-10-07 · 1 comment