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://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

=> https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

=> Posted in: s/privacy | ♊️ pollux

2024-10-14 · 4 months ago

2 Comments ↓

=> 👾 jecxjo · Oct 14 at 21:25:

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?

=> ♊️ 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.