ChaCha20-BLAKE2b VS age

Compare ChaCha20-BLAKE2b vs age and see what are their differences.

age

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. (by FiloSottile)
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ChaCha20-BLAKE2b age
2 213
3 15,133
- -
1.8 5.5
almost 2 years ago 14 days ago
C# Go
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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ChaCha20-BLAKE2b

Posts with mentions or reviews of ChaCha20-BLAKE2b. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-06.
  • Kryptor: A simple, modern, and secure encryption tool.
    7 projects | /r/crypto | 6 Mar 2021
    I see what you mean; https://github.com/samuel-lucas6/ChaCha20-BLAKE2b would be considered borderline rolling your own. Especially when compared to https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/commit/2194f6962c8bb3bca8a55f313d5b9302596b593b as one solution or mitigation to the attack, and considering that it does not seem to a big problem for key based encryption (judging by the comments in that commit).
    7 projects | /r/crypto | 6 Mar 2021
    Yes, I've implemented XChaCha20-BLAKE2b as an AEAD construction. You can find the code and explanation here. I received some feedback from someone who has worked on real primitives. They pointed out a big-endian bug in the code, which I fixed. They didn't mention anything else.

age

Posts with mentions or reviews of age. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ChaCha20-BLAKE2b and age you can also consider the following projects:

sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

Picocrypt - A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.

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

age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age

minisign - A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.

OpenKeychain - OpenKeychain is an OpenPGP implementation for Android.

git-crypt - Transparent file encryption in git

gopass - The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams

poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]

scrypt - The scrypt key derivation function was originally developed for use in the Tarsnap online backup system and is designed to be far more secure against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.

Cameradar - Cameradar hacks its way into RTSP videosurveillance cameras

pass-tomb - A pass extension that helps you keep the whole tree of passwords encrypted inside a Tomb.