Age – a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library

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  • age

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

    One of the things I like most about Age is that it made the very deliberate choice to __not__ become a general tool like GPG, and focuses only on one thing: secure encryption. You can read some of the reasoning about specifically not supporting signing as well here [0], but TL;DR -- it's a hard problem and age isn't really designed for communication and doesn't want to become a "a worse version of signal".

    [0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/51

  • rage

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

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • kage

    🚧 WIP Kotlin implementation of the age file encryption format (by android-password-store)

    I'm eagerly awaiting the Kotlin implementation of age[0] because once that's finished, Android Password Store[1] will be able to offer age encryption next to/ instead of gpg.

    0: https://github.com/android-password-store/kage

  • Android-Password-Store

    Android application compatible with ZX2C4's Pass command line application

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