pass-tomb VS age

By itself, Passwordstore will not encrypt file names or directory names, which might not be a problem if no one else has access to the machine that hosts your git repo, but if that's not the case (even if it's a private repo on whatever platform), you might want to use either Tomb or git-crypt-remote to have full end-to-end encryption. There are even some tools that glue tomb and pass together (https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb for one), though I'm not sure what's the situation is like when it comes to mobile integration with tomb/git-crypt-remote.

That can of course be fixed by using pass-tomb, but that isn’t implemented in mobile clients (at least not on iOS).

- https://pujol.io/blog/tomb-with-gpg-keys/ - https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb

A plug-in called pass-tomb exists to fix this, but doesn’t work with mobile apps (a least not iOS)

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).