C2SP VS kage

Age is a modern, respected crypto solution: https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/age.md

Argon2 is the best choice, but scrypt may be more easily available: https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/issues/10

Hi! I read and appreciated your issues and discussions, sorry I didn't get to respond to them yet, but I've been thinking about it.

Although I don't disagree that parsing text is hard, I also think that parsing variable-size binary formats is hard (and there is a tall, tall pile of bugs to confirm that). Really, parsing is hard. Rather than count on one design or the other to be bug-proof, I worked on a large test suite to help implementations catch their parsing bugs. [https://c2sp.org/CCTV/age] I think it would have found one of the issues you reported if that implementation had integrated it, and I am going to add vectors for various resource exhaustion scenarios which I hope would have found the other. (I am not going to look at what it is exactly, so I will know if I made the suite comprehensive enough without being too specific about this bug.)

I also liked your observation that it would have been nice if the header was streamable. [https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/issues/28] It went on the pile labeled "regrets / for v2 when it comes", thank you.

I think it's ironic that you imply a "dozen of immature crypto libraries" are used in the Age spec. It's quite the opposite and the Age spec provides a reduction in so-called "yolo crypto" versus the OpenPGP spec. See: https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/age.md and also give https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html# for a pretty accurate overview of what's wrong with OpenPGP.

… okay, then look at the spec, which is beautifully simple: https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/age.md#the-scrypt-rec...

I had the same question. I believe it refers to “Actually Good Encryption” (https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/age.md).

If using the OpenPGP applet over NFC is possible, then it's almost certainly possible to use the PIV one with age keys too!

The Andorid password-store app is working on an implementation of age in Kotlin (https://github.com/android-password-store/kage) and I think they already support passage stores. Maybe you could open a feature request for age-plugin-yubikey compatibility? If you do, feel free to tag me, and I can help make sure the formats are well specified.

I'm eagerly awaiting the Kotlin implementation of age[0] because once that's finished, Android Password Store[1] will be able to offer age encryption next to/ instead of gpg.

0: https://github.com/android-password-store/kage