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Question is, will this become a useful tool or a bloated multi-purpose behemoth (with no clearly defined purpose) like Keybase did?

We badly need good simple tools for encryption. For all the criticism of GPG coming from the savvy crypto-crowd, there is still no other tool that performs common encryption-related tasks quickly and easily.

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age is the standard answer to this https://age-encryption.org/

I like where age is going. It only does a fraction of what I need (for example, I need to sign and keep detached signatures), but I have high hopes for it.

Still, it is nowhere near a replacement for GnuPG.

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