go-arg VS age

Under the hood, the pluginx.ParseCommand method uses go-arg.

I’ve used multiple libraries over the last two years but less is more and go-arg feels like something that would be in the stdlib: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg

I use this: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg and setting defaults for my local environment. So no need to keep a .env file.

I personally swear by the go-arg package, as i prefer its library-not-framework approach.

and echoing the result after converting to an age private key

I like that https://github.com/FiloSottile/age has small public keys.

> something fresh

It exists, it's called age..

Some random links

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/hr64hr/state_of_age...

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/discussions/432

> (Acquiring keys, rotating keys, identifying compromised keys, and most importantly either reaches a large enough percentage of emails..

Oh nevermind, age doesn't do any of that. Indeed, it doesn't even do email https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/93

Encrypted secrets thanks to SOPS and Age

I never heard of "Age" before this post. Thank you to share. If others are interested to learn more, here are two other interesting posts about Age:

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/discussions/432

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/

of all things I was able to resolve the issue via this github issue: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/370#issuecomment-1...

Why keep something secret on a public repo? Is that not an oxymoron?

Also, I’m terms of encryption something like age[0] makes it much easier to not shoot yourself in the foot.

[0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

Why RSA specifically? For backups, I recommend Tarsnap. But if you really don't want to pay for encrypted cloud hosting, then check out age encryption.

I wouldn't use OpenSSL personally. If you just need simple but secure symmetric encryption, checkout the scrypt(1) encryption utility from Tarsnap. If you need support for public keys, check out age(1).