alt Hacker News> But I was discussing it with some techies once and someone mentioned to me that it had less entropy (I think they mentioned 256 bits of entropy) whereas they wanted 512 bits of entropy which pgp supported
> I can be wrong about what exactly they talked about since it was long time ago so pardon me if thats the case, but are there any "issues" that you know about in age?
Entropy bikeshedding is very popular for PGP / GnuPG enthusiasts, but it's silly.
age uses X25519, HKDF-SHA256, ChaCha20, and Poly1305. Soon it will also use ML-KEM-768 (post-quantum crypto!). This is all very secure crypto. If a quantum computer turns out to be infeasible to build on Earth, I predict none of these algorithms will be broken in our lifetime.
PGP supports RSA. That's enough reason to avoid it.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/
If you want more reasons:
> PGP supports RSA. That's enough reason to avoid it.
I hate to break the narrative but age also supports RSA, for SSH compat:
https://man.archlinux.org/man/age.1#SSH_keys