passage VS vaultwarden

passage

_o/ hi all, age author here!

The OP link is the spec, here's a few other things you might find interesting

- the Go reference implementation https://age-encryption.org

- the Go library docs https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age

- the CLI man page https://filippo.io/age/age.1

- an interoperable Rust implementation by @str4d https://github.com/str4d/rage

- a YubiKey plugin by @str4d https://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey

- the draft plugin protocol specification (which we should really merge) https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/pull/5/files?short_path=07bf8cc...

- a Windows GUI by @spieglt https://github.com/spieglt/winage

- a discussion of the authentication properties of age https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/

- a discussion of a potential post-quantum plugin https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/post-quantum-age/

- a password-store fork that uses age instead of gpg https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage (see also: how I use it with a YubiKey https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/passage/)

https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage and https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage/issues/24

Without looking close at your suggestion, you might want to look at passage [0] by the creator of age. It's a fork of pass [1] using age as the backend.

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

I wanted to reduce the amount of key management in my life to the bare minimum. I don't use gpg for its intended purpose (maintaining a web of trust with folks that you communicate with), but rather only use it for Emacs file encryption and things like password-store (which I'm replacing with https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage and will also port the Emacs pass frontend to work with).

there in fact exists a pass-like interface for age: https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage

To people who want to self-host this, look at Vaultwarden which is a fully compatible alternate server with even more features:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Been running it for a year with 0 issues.

For passwords and 2FA I use Bitwarden in combination with a self-hosted Vaultwarden service (for imcreased security and use of pro features for free).

Vaultwarden as Password-Safe

I have a lot of software that I host myself on my home server, partly to save money but also because I want to control my own data. For example, I host VaultWarden which is the open source server for BitWarden. This gives me all the premium features for free with the added bonus of keeping my passwords out of the cloud.

Self hosting is incredibly easy with vaultwarden (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)

I have now switched to using the BitWarden app with the self-hosted VaultWarden server. I have set it up, so my passwords are only accessible when connected to my home network either physically or with a VPN (I am using tailscale for this).