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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mim to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

age seems to be the new hot thing to encrypt data.

However, when you generate a key pair, the private key just sits as a plaintext file on your computer.

Maybe I'm too used to PGP, but this makes me a bit nervous. There doesn't see to be a key manager that allows you to pass in a key id with which you encrypt / decrypt. It's all done using the public key directly in the command line (for encrypting), or the plaintext private key file (to decrypt).

Am I missing something? Is there a better / easier way to manage these private key files?

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[-] StudioLE@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

The author pronounces it [aɡe̞] with a hard g, like GIF, and is always spelled lowercase.

I can't be the only one to think GIF is a terrible example for pronunciation?

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

What a stupid name for a tool. Are they deliberately trying to make it unrecognizable when people read the word?

[-] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

pgp is already perfect lol thats too mucu

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The pgp private key sitting on your computer is also plain text... Unless you encrypt it

[-] Cipher22@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Right? Op is trying to personify "we've tried nothing and we're all or if ideas". It's almost like it's a beast practice to encrypt data at rest, including your pain text keys.

[-] mim 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you actually used age?

Unlike gpg, encryption of the private key is not default (or straightforward). It also doesn't have a key management system

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

you can move it to your keystore in /etc/pki

[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure I get it. How do you create keys? I use kleopatra and never saw a plaintext.

[-] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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