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How do this compare to @cperciva scrypt[1]? I've used scrypt before and love how simple it is. scrypt enc test.txt > test.scrypt Please enter passphrase:

• woodruffw 4y ago
  scrypt is solely passphrase-based; age has "identities". Identities, in turn, can be the private half of an asymmetric keypair, a passphrase (which then uses scrypt under the hood), or a handful of "extension" types, like SSH keys (for the reference implementation). In other words: if you're using age with passphrases, it's very similar to scrypt's CLI. But you can also use it to encrypt to public recipients, similar to how you'd encrypt using someone's public GPG key.