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My impression is that the novelty is less about the encryption format and more about the tools and ecosystem being understandable to anyone that has used ssh be
by Macha 4y ago
My impression is that the novelty is less about the encryption format and more about the tools and ecosystem being understandable to anyone that has used ssh before (and indeed, in the case of the reference implementation, even letting you use straight up ssh keys)
- fbdab103 4y agoIndeed, ease of use is almost more important than security. If the tooling is so hard to use correctly that everyone makes a mistake, users gain little. The interface to age seem so straightforward that as long as the crypto primitives are solid, this would do a lot for making encryption more accessible. Edit: correct an English gaff
- theK 4y agoSorry, I kinda missed that. The "multiple recipient" thing is quite prevalent in the titles (here and on github) so I thought this was supposed to be the key differentiator.