Age

Introduction

age is a modern tool for modern encryption. It contains a lot of features and aims to fix some of gpg flows. The Golang development is done with GitHub.

Encrypt with a passphrase

You can provide a passphrase to encode your file. This is a convenient method to protect your files before sharing.

age -p file.to.encrypt > file.encrypted.age

Decrypt with a passphrase

You need to do the inverted action to extract the data from the files.

age -d file.encrypted.age > file.decrypted