CICiPHPerCoder·Dec 28, 2021
No, Thomas was talking about rage. https://github.com/str4d/rage
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A simple, secure and modern file encryption tool (and Rust library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
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A simple, secure and modern file encryption tool (and Rust library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
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- filosottile/age · linked in 6 of the same discussions
- str4d/age-plugin-yubikey · linked in 5 of the same discussions
- c2sp/c2sp · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesAs yepguy mentioned AGE is simpler. I can also mention few things:
- It works smoothly with SSH keys (generated from ssh-keygen), which are perfectly recognized by possibly any developer.
- No need for external client, such as GpgWin/Kleopatra for Windows.
- Embed-able in Rust[0] and Go[1] (there are libraries), no need to call `gpg --decrypt ...` from the command line.
- Encrypted files by pass and keys are smaller. I guess it is thanks to ecliptic-curve encryption.
[0]: https://github.com/str4d/rage
[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
In Clever uses of pass, the Unix password managerThis whole thread is off-topic (talking about AEAD in a post about signing), but:
You can use age's AEAD encryption with Yubikeys.
Yubikeys can do ECDHE in PIV mode.
I wrote https://github.com/tv42/yubage 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://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey
In Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys> kbs2 uses the rage[1] implementation of age[2].
Symmetric encryption with an actually comprehensible CLI; thank you!
[1]: https://github.com/str4d/rage
[2]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
In Pass: The standard Unix password managerThat was a very interesting read, and covers all the issues I had with GPG/PGP broken down on a per-use-case basis, which is really neat. Fairly up-to-date too (aside from maybe WhatsApp mentioned alongside Signal). In any case, thanks for sharing! 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 older.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-ma...
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