age VS user.js

Compare age vs user.js 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)

user.js

Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening (by arkenfox)
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age user.js
213 681
15,133 8,999
- 2.9%
5.5 7.1
14 days ago 23 days ago
Go JavaScript
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.

user.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of user.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing age and user.js you can also consider the following projects:

sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

Better-Fox - An up-to-date user.js to speed up and secure Firefox [Moved to: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox]

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

privacytools.io - šŸ›”šŸ›  You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.

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.