Comment by FiloSottile

_o/ hi all, age author here! age is the one of my projects that grew most organically into an ecosystem. It's always great to see what people build with it. Happy to answer any questions.

Here are some previous discussions

132 points on Feb 26, 2023 | 77 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34936504

126 points on Sept 26, 2022 | 54 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32980141

113 points on June 11, 2022 | 33 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31705670

494 points on Sept 6, 2021 | 88 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435613

466 points on Dec 27, 2019 | 199 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895671

and here some related resources

- a list of age ecosystem projects https://github.com/FiloSottile/awesome-age

- the format specification https://c2sp.org/age

- the Go library docs https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age

- the CLI man page https://filippo.io/age/age.1

- the large reusable test suite (which I should write about!) https://c2sp.org/CCTV/age

- an interoperable Rust implementation by @str4d https://github.com/str4d/rage

- an official TypeScript implementation https://github.com/FiloSottile/typage (based on libsodium.js in the latest version, and on pure-js Noble libraries on main)

- a YubiKey plugin by @str4d https://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey

- the plugin protocol specification https://c2sp.org/age-plugin

- a Windows GUI by @spieglt https://github.com/spieglt/winage

- a discussion of the authentication properties of age https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/

- a discussion of the plugin architecture https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-plugins/

- a discussion of a potential post-quantum plugin https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/post-quantum-age/

- a password-store fork that uses age instead of gpg https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage (see also: how I use it with a YubiKey https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/passage/)