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spieglt / winage

winage

Windows GUI version of the age file encryption tool (built on rage, the Rust implementation)

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Windows GUI version of the age file encryption tool (built on rage, the Rust implementation)

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-12-06 17:03:41 UTC to 2024-08-05 08:32:16 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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FiloSottile·Aug 5, 2024
_o/ hi all, age author here! age is the one of my projects that grew most organically into an ecosystem. It's always great to see what people build with it. Happy to answer any questions. Here are some previous discussions 132 points on Feb 26, 2023 | 77 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34936504 126 points on Sept 26, 2022 | 54 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32980141 113 points on June 11, 2022 | 33 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31705670 494 points on Sept 6, 2021 | 88 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435613 466 points on Dec 27, 2019 | 199 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895671 and here some related resources - a list of age ecosystem projects https://github.com/FiloSottile/awesome-age - the format specification https://c2sp.org/age - the Go library docs
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https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age - the CLI man page https://filippo.io/age/age.1 - the large reusable test suite (which I should write about!) https://c2sp.org/CCTV/age - an interoperable Rust implementation by @str4d https://github.com/str4d/rage - an official TypeScript implementation https://github.com/FiloSottile/typage (based on libsodium.js in the latest version, and on pure-js Noble libraries on main) - a YubiKey plugin by @str4d https://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey - the plugin protocol specification https://c2sp.org/age-plugin - a Windows GUI by @spieglt https://github.com/spieglt/winage - a discussion of the authentication properties of age https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/ - a discussion of the plugin architecture https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-plugins/ - a discussion of a potential post-quantum plugin https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/post-quantum-age/ - a password-store fork that uses age instead of gpg https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage (see also: how I use it with a YubiKey https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/passage/)
In Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library
FiloSottile·Feb 26, 2023
_o/ hi all, age author here! The OP link is the spec, here's a few other things you might find interesting - the Go reference implementation https://age-encryption.org - the Go library docs https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age - the CLI man page https://filippo.io/age/age.1 - the large reusable test suite (which I should write about!) https://c2sp.org/CCTV/age - an interoperable Rust implementation by @str4d https://github.com/str4d/rage - a YubiKey plugin by @str4d https://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey - the draft plugin protocol specification (which we should really merge) https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/pull/5/files?short_path=07bf8cc... - a Windows GUI by @spieglt https://github.com/spieglt/winage - a discussion of the authentication properties of age https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/ - a discussion of a potentia
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l post-quantum plugin https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/post-quantum-age/ - a password-store fork that uses age instead of gpg https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage (see also: how I use it with a YubiKey https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/passage/) (Yes I should make a website to collate all this.) Happy to answer any questions!
In Age: Modern file encryption format with multiple pluggable recipients
spieglt·Sep 30, 2022
I don't really know how many users I have, so I don't know how "meaningful" my projects are, but I have found some of them posted on French, Chinese, Greek, Russian blogs etc., so hopefully they fill some people's needs besides my own. https://github.com/spieglt/flyingcarpet https://cloaker.mobi https://github.com/spieglt/cloaker https://github.com/spieglt/whatfiles https://github.com/spieglt/winage I learned to program because I was frustrated that after working in IT consulting for several years, I still had no idea how computers worked. I started with "Learn Python the Hard Way" and "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python". Then got a job doing some Windows consulting stuff, and they said they'd hire me as a software engineer if I learned Go, which was a pretty easy step from Python. I'd tried to learn programming as a kid several times
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and always found it too frustrating. I started working on side projects as a way to learn new languages, improve my resume, and scratch my own itches. The hardest part was coming up with ideas for useful/worthwhile projects. I was super frustrated one day that the easiest way to get a file between two machines that were right beside each other was sending them out to the internet via Google Drive or Dropbox, which made me want to write "cross-platform AirDrop", which became Flying Carpet. If you find yourself wanting a simple piece of software that seems like it should already exist, that's a great project idea.
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