rage VS dexios

I have already built this into a small feature in my app, but I do plan to integrate it deeper and bake it into the core functionality soon. Which should be another interesting problem to solve as the app has integrated client-side encryption using Age (rage (rage-wasm)). But that's for another day...

_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/)

I just added rage (https://github.com/str4d/rage) support, which does support pinentry, see https://github.com/anticomputer/age.el#known-issues for an example of how to use rage instead.

Really appreciate this article. It's a little snarky but it hits the mark and encourages people to try Age, which is a pretty awesome little tool.

https://age-encryption.org/v1

I'm not convinced that whole-disk encryption is sensible for most threat models, but I use the built-in FileVault on macOS (under the reasoning that, at the very least, it can't really hurt).

On Linux, I use age[1] (specifically, rage[2]) to encrypt sensitive files. I wrote a secret manager that uses the latter as an encryption backend[3], and I use `rage-mount` to mount (read-only) views of encrypted archives.

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

[2]: https://github.com/str4d/rage

[3]: https://github.com/woodruffw/kbs2

Rclone can be used on windows dexios has a wip gui app and borg yeah thats a linux only thing. You could probably use rclone itself though as it has tons of useful features like encryption.

Hey so when looking at xchacha as it seems to be getting more and more popular in terms of adoption for securing files/messages etc. I noticed that when experimenting and testing file encryption with applications like dexios picocrypt and hat.sh that none of the files could be read/understood by other applications. While this doesn't happen with alot of other apps/algos likes aes afaik.

A command line tool written in rust that uses XChaCha20-Poly1305 designed for its ease of use, simplicity, and high security.

I'm assuming this software would be just as safe but there seems to be features that Picocrypt has that I can't see if dexios has. Unless someone can correct me with that and they do in fact share the same set of features

Not knowning what Dexios is, I did visit https://github.com/brxken128/dexios and learnt:

You may find Dexios on Github, and you can find the full documentation on Github Pages.

You may view the project on Github

Windows is mostly supported1, and we offer builds for it on Github!

This is a huge step up from v7.x.x versions, as encrypted file headers have finally been standardized!. This means your files will always be backwards-compatible, and always supported.