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How do you manage age keys? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mim@lemmy.sdf.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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age seems to be the new hot thing to encrypt data.

However, when you generate a key pair, the private key just sits as a plaintext file on your computer.

Maybe I'm too used to PGP, but this makes me a bit nervous. There doesn't see to be a key manager that allows you to pass in a key id with which you encrypt / decrypt. It's all done using the public key directly in the command line (for encrypting), or the plaintext private key file (to decrypt).

Am I missing something? Is there a better / easier way to manage these private key files?

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[–] authed@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pgp private key sitting on your computer is also plain text... Unless you encrypt it

[–] Cipher22@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? Op is trying to personify "we've tried nothing and we're all or if ideas". It's almost like it's a beast practice to encrypt data at rest, including your pain text keys.

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you actually used age?

Unlike gpg, encryption of the private key is not default (or straightforward). It also doesn't have a key management system