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Re: "I gave up long ago on GnuPG and switched to age. age is..."
While I maintain my GnuPG key and use it in a few cases, I have been using the openssl cli tool to encrypt files. The reason is that every nix system either comes with it pre-installed or can be installed in a matter of seconds. I can send a file to pretty much anyone and assuming they know how to use the cli tool they can decrypt it in.
Any reason for me to jump to age?
Oct 14 · 2 months ago
♊️ pollux [OP] · Oct 15 at 19:09:
age has only a few commands compared to GnuPG and OpenSSl I can't say because I don't use it.
I gave up long ago on GnuPG and switched to age. age is pretty cool, but as a casual user I often forget the proper command line arguments combinations. Therefore I decided to create minicrypt, which only has two commands, -d decrypt and -g generate key pair. Encryption for a single recipient does not need a parameter. The nice thing, compared for example with GnuPG, is, it does not produce meta data and therefore is ideally suited for anonymous communications. [https link]