FiloSottile/age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 66 days ago, with 60 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool and Go library with small explicit keys and UNIX-style composability.
- Offers a minimal configuration approach with strong security and support for multiple recipients and passphrase encryption.
- Use for encrypting files securely with multiple recipients using explicit age or SSH public keys.
- Use for integrating file encryption into Go applications with a straightforward library interface.
- Use for encrypting files with passphrase protection or hardware tokens like YubiKeys for enhanced security.
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License
BSD 3-Clause
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library.
It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
📜 The format specification is at age-encryption.org/v1. age was designed by @benjojo and @FiloSottile.
🦀 An alternative interoperable Rust implementation is available at github.com/str4d/rage.
🌍 Typage is a TypeScript implementation. It works in the browser, in Node.js, and in Bun.
🔑 Hardware PIV tokens such as YubiKeys are supported through the age-plugin-yubikey plugin.
✨ For more plugins, implementations, tools, and integrations, check out the awesome age list.
💬 The author pronounces it
[aɡe̞]with a hard g, like GIF, and is always spelled lowercase.On Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD you can use the pre-built binaries.
If your system has a supported version of Go, you can build from source.
Help from new packagers is very welcome.
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Forks
682+25
Open issues
25-5
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