Thread by @FiloSottile

🚨 The age-encryption.org reference implementation reached beta! 🥳

age(1) — a simple, modern, secure file encryption tool.

https://twitter.com/agetool/status/1210698705671802881

Easy UNIX piping! No config options! Modern crypto! No keyrings! Public keys that fit in a tweet! No more looking up how to encrypt a file on StackOverflow. 💥

age1t7r9prsqc3w3x4auqq7y8zplrfsddmf8z97hct68gmhea2l34f9q63h2kp

Try it out and send feedback 👉 age-encryption.org

I'm particularly happy that thanks to @str4d we have two interoperable implementations of age-encryption.org from the get-go.

Both in memory safe languages, they provide maturity and future proofing for the format, spec and ecosystem.

github.com/str4d/rage

@str4d age (without tests and the Go stdlib): 1800 lines of code
GnuPG 2.1 (w/o tests, gcrypt, dirmngr, scd): 130k loc

age: █
GnuPG: ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

@str4d I already heard about four alternative age implementations: rage, page, cage and sage 🙌

@str4d Yay!

@str4d

https://twitter.com/OpenBSD_ports/status/1211375205546770432

@str4d Oneliner to generate a new age private key and show a QR code of the public key:

age-keygen | tee key.txt | awk '/public key/{print $4}' | qrencode -t ansiutf8

age is now a Go library! 💥👩‍💻🔒

package age 📜 pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age…
package agessh 📜 pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age…
package armor 📜 pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age…

💯% the easiest way to encrypt a file. ✨

🤦‍♂️

Package age was meant to be at filippo.io/age not filippo.io/age/age.

So here's v1.0.0-beta4 and we shall never talk about v1.0.0-beta3 again.

package age 📜 pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age…