siv-mode VS age

Compare siv-mode vs age 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)
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siv-mode age
1 214
37 15,298
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7.7 4.9
13 days ago 9 days ago
Java Go
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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siv-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of siv-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-13.
  • Cryptomator – Encrypt files on your cloud storage
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2022
    > Cryptomator's technology meets the latest standards and encrypts both files and filenames with AES and 256 bit key length.

    I know you're advertising to slightly less technical users, but please provide some documentation explaining your choices! AES alone doesn't say anything about the mode of operation, which makes or breaks the scheme.

    From a little sleuthing, it seems likely that they're using GCM-SIV[1], which is a good choice.

    [1]: https://github.com/cryptomator/siv-mode

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 2024-04-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing siv-mode and age you can also consider the following projects:

securefs - Filesystem in userspace (FUSE) with transparent authenticated encryption

sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

DroidFS - Encrypted overlay filesystems implementation for Android. Also available on gitea: https://forge.chapril.org/hardcoresushi/DroidFS

Picocrypt - A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.

QSimpleCrypto - Small C++ cryptography library based on Qt and OpenSSL.

rage - A simple, secure and modern file encryption tool (and Rust library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

cryfs - Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud

age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age

Anonybox - Encrypted AES-256 Java-built Mailbox

minisign - A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.

sboot_stm32 - Secure USB DFU1.1 bootloader for STM32

OpenKeychain - OpenKeychain is an OpenPGP implementation for Android.