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FiloSottile/age: A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. (age-encryption.org)
submitted 4 weeks ago by glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] natecox@programming.dev 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I’ve been using age recently with nix to store secrets across deploys and I’m pretty happy with it.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

So you store the private keys on your client, and the encrypted stuffs on the server, basically?

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago

I use this for kubernetes secrets with sops. It works great.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago

I found age was simple to use for asymmetric encryption, can not say the same about gpg or openssl