age VS ChaCha20-BLAKE2b

Compare age vs ChaCha20-BLAKE2b 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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age ChaCha20-BLAKE2b
213 2
15,264 4
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5.5 1.8
about 1 month ago about 2 years ago
Go C#
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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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.

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).

What are some alternatives?

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

sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

orion - Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto

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

Kryptor - A simple, modern, and secure encryption and signing tool that aims to be a better version of age and Minisign.

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

libsodium-core - libsodium for .NET - A secure cryptographic library

age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age

libsodium-doc - Gitbook documentation for libsodium

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

sodium.cr - Crystal wrapper for the libsodium crypto API

OpenKeychain - OpenKeychain is an OpenPGP implementation for Android.

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