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A few pass-related projects are working on an age[1] backend in addition to gpg. I think gopass already has support for it.

[1]: https://age-encryption.org/

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Here's one I have been playing with success.

https://github.com/chrisswanda/passage

Correct. Gopass has very early age support. It fully works but the UX is not great (yet).

Oh dammit. I have stopped using Gopass and rewrote pass just for that reason - missing AGE encryption. At least I have learned something new and I feel I have better UI - fuzzy finder instead of their TUI. However, big kudos to Gopass team for awesome work and really useful tool.

Before I start working on next project... Do you recognize any mobile app, which could replace PasswordStore app for Android [0] but with AGE support?

[0]: https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...

Android Password Store itself is keen to add age support[1], but I don't know of anything usable right now. You could probably use gopass in termux in the mean time.

[1]: https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...

Oh, that's an awesome news. Thank you!

> missing AGE encryption

I am just curious. What makes AGE backend better than GPG one?

Age is much simpler to use in nearly every way, whether that's interactively (keys are just files!), in scripting, or in implementation.

I'm still sticking to gpg for the foreseeable future, but between age and sequoia[1] I'm hopeful that things will soon be much easier to use.

[1]: https://sequoia-pgp.org/

As yepguy mentioned AGE is simpler. I can also mention few things:

- It works smoothly with SSH keys (generated from ssh-keygen), which are perfectly recognized by possibly any developer.

- No need for external client, such as GpgWin/Kleopatra for Windows.

- Embed-able in Rust[0] and Go[1] (there are libraries), no need to call `gpg --decrypt ...` from the command line.

- Encrypted files by pass and keys are smaller. I guess it is thanks to ecliptic-curve encryption.

[0]: https://github.com/str4d/rage

[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

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