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Age

Open george-angel opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Allow Strongbox to use age https://github.com/FiloSottile/age primitives for encrypting files.

This allows users to use .strongbox_recipient files in the Git repository for encryption and ~/.strongbox_identity to store identities for decryption.

age encryption has feature parity with SIV and a few nice extras:

  • fix the known issue with file ordering when decrypting
  • allow multiple recipients
  • compatible with age outside of Git workflow
  • offloading encryption, compression and decoration to an external (and a very good) library

age encryption is in addition to the current SIV encryption and remains backward compatible.

george-angel avatar Jul 08 '24 10:07 george-angel