age

What people said

• “I'm not convinced that whole-disk encryption is sensible for most threat models, but I use the built-in FileVault on macOS (under the reasoning that, at the very least, it can't really hurt). On Linux, I use age (specifically, rage) to encrypt sensitive files. I wrote a sec…”

• “For small one-off encryption use cases (i.e. encrypt a single file) I use age: Especially convenient when you need to transmit the file over some untrusted medium like email, or if you just want to dump it in some cloud storage service and not w…”

• “Related: If you need to transfer sensitive data over Bittorent, Age is a good tool for encrypting it before transmission.”

• “keybase is unfortunately one of those programs that combine many things into one - somewhat antithetical to the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. For kbfs, tahoe-lafs is a nice alternative. I don't know about the fuse interface as I haven't used it, but it has some solid f…”

• “Yes. I _love_ Keybase Git for instant, immediate, safe backups of private repos. Keybase Git has been an absolutely killer feature for me since it came out and I'll miss it terribly if Keybase-the-software takes a turn for the worse. Now is the time to ensure I've got everything…”

• “Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library (289 points)”