age VS pass-tomb

Compare age vs pass-tomb 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)

pass-tomb

A pass extension that helps you keep the whole tree of passwords encrypted inside a Tomb. (by roddhjav)
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age pass-tomb
213 9
15,264 366
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5.5 7.1
about 1 month ago about 2 months ago
Go Shell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

pass-tomb

Posts with mentions or reviews of pass-tomb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing age and pass-tomb you can also consider the following projects:

sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

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

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

pass-grave - An extension for pass (the standard Unix password manager) to easily hide the metadata of the password store

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

OpenKeychain - OpenKeychain is an OpenPGP implementation for Android.

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

passhole - A secure hole for your passwords (KeePass CLI)

age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age

Android-Password-Store - Android application compatible with ZX2C4's Pass command line application

pash - 🔒 A simple password manager using GPG written in POSIX sh.