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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

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  1. …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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. …- 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
  6. …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?
  7. …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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. …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?
  11. …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?
  12. …[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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. 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’
  16. …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
  17. …< 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
  18. …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
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    Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
    story by nahikoa · 2019-12-27 · 197 comments
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    Age Beta 1
    story by mises · 2019-12-27 · 0 comments
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    Age - The PGP Replacement (alpha)
    story by mises · 2019-10-08 · 2 comments
  22. 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
  23. The repo: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
    comment by bertman · 2019-10-07 · in A simple file encryption tool and format
  24. Here you go: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
    comment by bertman · 2019-10-07 · in A simple file encryption tool and format
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    Alpha release of Age-tool – A small command line encryption utility made in Go
    story by playeren · 2019-10-07 · 1 comment