Privacy @lemmy.ml mim @lemmy.sdf.org 1 yr. ago

How do you manage age keys?

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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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?
What a stupid name for a tool. Are they deliberately trying to make it unrecognizable when people read the word?
pgp is already perfect lol thats too mucu
- The pgp private key sitting on your computer is also plain text... Unless you encrypt it
  
  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.
you can move it to your keystore in /etc/pki
Not sure I get it. How do you create keys? I use kleopatra and never saw a plaintext.
- https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

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