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> lack of support for AES-256 GCM Why do you need AES ? Age uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 which is more than good enough, and has the added benefit of being an algor
by traceroute66 4y ago
> lack of support for AES-256 GCM
Why do you need AES ?
Age uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 which is more than good enough, and has the added benefit of being an algorithm that is optimised for software only implementation and doesn't need hardware support (e.g. AES-NI instruction set).
- _wldu 4y agoMaybe he works for a company that does US government research? Maybe they require NIST approved algorithms. I'm pretty sure that would prevent the use of Age for file encryption.