age is definitely more mature, and as you say, it should probably say somewhere that ezcrypt is still a hobby project (albeit a serious one).
Some motives (some of which may sound strange, but mattered to me):
* Completely public domain.
* Without any third party dependencies (not even openssl or similar).
* Don't rely on a single cipher (low trust).
* Extremely portable (should easily build for and run on anything from an M4 Mac to a Raspberry Pi to an old OpenWRT MIPS router with 32 MB RAM for instance).
* Should be easy to use (e.g. no key management, unless you want to), and composable in standard Unix ways (pipes etc).
* Security focused, obviously. E.g. software architecture-wise, minimize dependencies, properly manage files, processes and secrets, etc.
* Personally: To learn and to build something that I trust.
In a way: When the dust settles after the nuclear apocalypse, if you manage to dig out a C compiler, this is your tool. ;-)
Some motives (some of which may sound strange, but mattered to me):
In a way: When the dust settles after the nuclear apocalypse, if you manage to dig out a C compiler, this is your tool. ;-)