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age

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

Tool age-encryption built-at-rc
Minimal

Install package

Latest
min add age
Source archive SHA256
396007bc…290a
Spec hash
74382734…a21b
Target
amd64/linux
Needs network
No
Closed source
No

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What is age?

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

How to use this package

Quick install

Installs the package into the current environment for this session. Use --build or --runtime to persist it as a build-time or runtime dependency.

min add age

Declare as a task dependency in minimal.toml

Listing the package under tasks.<name>.packages makes it available inside that task’s sandbox.

[tasks.dev]
packages = ["age"]

Build-time vs runtime

Choose build-time for tools needed during compilation, runtime for dynamic libraries loaded at runtime.

min add --build age
min add --runtime age