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some_furrylast Saturday at 9:55 PM1 replyview on HN

> I need an alternative to "gpg --encrypt --armor --recipient <foo>"

That's literally age.

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age


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johnisgoodlast Saturday at 10:02 PM

No, because there is no keyring and you have to supply people's public key each time. It is not suitable for large-scale public key management (with unknown recipients), and it does not support automatic discovery, trust management. Age does NOT SUPPORT signing at all either.

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