age - simple encryption tool age-encryption.org

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 22:33:38 PST 2022


On 1/23/22, k <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Receiving an encrypted message doesn't indicate
> the sender is the same
> person who encrypted previous messages at all

If sender included a context proof, a psk, or a chain
inside each subsequent msg for the receiver it would.

> or that the message was
> even made in one unit by one person

A good decrypt seems to be one "unit", and no tool can prove
what was behind the senders "unit", could be duress or hack.

> others could also encrypt a hash tto this key, since it's public.

Yes it's silly, yet who knows what their model might be.

> Curious what norms exist for using signify/minisgn.
> Seems formats are kind of left up to the user.

What usage exist? OpenBSD uses it.
Search signify / minisign for more.


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