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I'm still think that OpenPGP is the best solution for the first two. But the two tools at the top have the same problems as pgp.
How do you trust some key material. Similarly how do you signal. The WoT is a complete failure, but modern solutions like WKD are amazing and make PGP just plain work.
The one nice thing about age is the ability to encrypt to a GitHub users key. However, even that is possible with OpenPGP. Here is a tool that I made ~7 years ago that does something similar: https://github.com/georgyo/sshcrypt
Another thing minisign/age don't have is a method to say that a key is compromised.
I don't think the solution to the problems with OpenPGP is too just ignore the problems and switch to using bare keys like new tools are doing.
TLDR at the bottom.
It seems the answer is Brian Warner's magic-wormhole. You're gonna see lots of file transfer sites with wormhole in their name, but if you want security you should use the original one, which is BW's m-w.
It is implemented in Python [1], so it's hard to install.
So someone made a Go version of it [2] that has binaries for windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc. But it's command line so maybe not suitable for lay people.
So another person made a GUI for it that also has binaries for all OS [3].
Also there is an android app [4]. Someone needs to implement an iOS one.
[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/
[2] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/
[3] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/
[4] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/
TLDR: ask them to install [5] and [6].
[5] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/releases/
(click on 'Assets' under 'Latest release' and download the zip or tar.gz for your OS)
[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...
Try it, it's usage is cute and really feels like magic.
TLDR at the bottom.
It seems the answer is Brian Warner's magic-wormhole. You're gonna see lots of file transfer sites with wormhole in their name, but if you want security you should use the original one, which is BW's m-w.
It is implemented in Python [1], so it's hard to install.
So someone made a Go version of it [2] that has binaries for windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc. But it's command line so maybe not suitable for lay people.
So another person made a GUI for it that also has binaries for all OS [3].
Also there is an android app [4]. Someone needs to implement an iOS one.
[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/
[2] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/
[3] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/
[4] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/
TLDR: ask them to install [5] and [6].
[5] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/releases/
(click on 'Assets' under 'Latest release' and download the zip or tar.gz for your OS)
[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...
Try it, it's usage is cute and really feels like magic.
TLDR at the bottom.
It seems the answer is Brian Warner's magic-wormhole. You're gonna see lots of file transfer sites with wormhole in their name, but if you want security you should use the original one, which is BW's m-w.
It is implemented in Python [1], so it's hard to install.
So someone made a Go version of it [2] that has binaries for windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc. But it's command line so maybe not suitable for lay people.
So another person made a GUI for it that also has binaries for all OS [3].
Also there is an android app [4]. Someone needs to implement an iOS one.
[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/
[2] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/
[3] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/
[4] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/
TLDR: ask them to install [5] and [6].
[5] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/releases/
(click on 'Assets' under 'Latest release' and download the zip or tar.gz for your OS)
[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...
Try it, it's usage is cute and really feels like magic.
TLDR at the bottom.
It seems the answer is Brian Warner's magic-wormhole. You're gonna see lots of file transfer sites with wormhole in their name, but if you want security you should use the original one, which is BW's m-w.
It is implemented in Python [1], so it's hard to install.
So someone made a Go version of it [2] that has binaries for windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc. But it's command line so maybe not suitable for lay people.
So another person made a GUI for it that also has binaries for all OS [3].
Also there is an android app [4]. Someone needs to implement an iOS one.
[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/
[2] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/
[3] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/
[4] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/
TLDR: ask them to install [5] and [6].
[5] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/releases/
(click on 'Assets' under 'Latest release' and download the zip or tar.gz for your OS)
[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...
Try it, it's usage is cute and really feels like magic.
In that case I would recommend Age. It’s a modern and sound replacement for GPG.