age

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age is a simple, modern and secure CLI file encryption tool and Go library. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability

Homepage: age-encryption.org
GitHub: github.com/FiloSottile/age
Web info: web-check.xyz/check/age-encryption.org

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age Source Code

Author

FiloSottile

Description

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

#age-encryption#built-at-rc

Homepage

https://age-encryption.org

License

BSD-3-Clause

Created

18 May 19

Last Updated

16 Jun 26

Latest version

v1.3.1

Primary Language

Size

1,623 KB

Stars

22,614

Forks

648

Watchers

22,614

Language Usage

Star History

Top Contributors

Recent Commits

Steve Weis (20 Mar 26)
all: minor cleanups (#700) Replace two hand-rolled slicesEqual helpers with slices.Equal from the standard library, which is already imported in age.go. (age.go:211-221, plugin/plugin.go:666-676) Fix godoc link typo [Indentity] -> [Identity]. (plugin/plugin.go:3) Fix comment typo "not MinPayload" -> "so MinPayload". (internal/inspect/inspect.go:25) Co-authored-by: Claude <[email protected]>
Steve Weis (20 Mar 26)
internal/format: return correct byte count from writeWrapped (#698) Co-authored-by: Claude <[email protected]>
Steve Weis (20 Mar 26)
internal/inspect: fix tag stanza type names in post-quantum classifier (#695) Co-authored-by: Claude <[email protected]>
Filippo Valsorda (02 Feb 26)
SIGSUM.md: extend release playbook
Filippo Valsorda (21 Jan 26)
.github/workflows: remove one-off darwin/amd64 backfill workflow Updates #676
Filippo Valsorda (21 Jan 26)
.github/workflows: add darwin/amd64 backfill workflow Updates #676
Filippo Valsorda (21 Jan 26)
.github/workflows: add darwin/amd64 build target Closes #676
Filippo Valsorda (31 Dec 25)
SIGSUM.md: add release playbook Updates #617
GitHub Actions (31 Dec 25)
doc: regenerate groff and html man pages
brettwhiteinc (31 Dec 25)
doc: fix post-quantum example in age-keygen manpage (#675)
Filippo Valsorda (28 Dec 25)
.github/workflows: inject version into source release artifact Updates #671 Updates golang/go#77020
Filippo Valsorda (28 Dec 25)
cmd,extra: restore the Version link-time variable We don't need it in our builds, but it's useful for downstream packagers. Fixes #671 Updates NixOS/nixpkgs#474666 Updates golang/go#77020
Filippo Valsorda (27 Dec 25)
SIGSUM.md: update policy for v1.3.0 Updates #617
Filippo Valsorda (27 Dec 25)
.github/workflows: improve release reproducibility Remove the go-version-file test target, because it will just use the toolchain line. It's a bit unfortunate we lose coverage of a go.mod version that's older than oldstable, but that should not happen and it'd not be a supported Go version anyway.
Filippo Valsorda (27 Dec 25)
.github/workflows: build and release source tarball Fixes #401
Filippo Valsorda (27 Dec 25)
.github/workflows: enable GitHub artifact attestation Closes #621 Co-authored-by: Helio Machado <[email protected]>
Filippo Valsorda (26 Dec 25)
cmd/age: don't output binary plaintext to terminal Closes #626
Filippo Valsorda (26 Dec 25)
internal/stream: fix DecryptReaderAt concurrency
Filippo Valsorda (26 Dec 25)
age: add ExampleDecryptReaderAt with zip.NewReader
Filippo Valsorda (26 Dec 25)
age: add DecryptReaderAt
Filippo Valsorda (25 Dec 25)
all: run "go fix"
Filippo Valsorda (25 Dec 25)
age: add EncryptReader pull-based encryption API Fixes #644 Fixes #654 Updates #638
Filippo Valsorda (24 Dec 25)
plugin: add NewTerminalUI Closes #611 Closes #591 Co-authored-by: Nicolas Dumazet <[email protected]>
GitHub Actions (24 Dec 25)
doc: regenerate groff and html man pages
Filippo Valsorda (24 Dec 25)
doc: include warning in age-plugin-batchpass(1)
GitHub Actions (24 Dec 25)
doc: regenerate groff and html man pages
Filippo Valsorda (24 Dec 25)
cmd/age-plugin-batchpass: add detailed warning
Filippo Valsorda (24 Dec 25)
cmd: move compatibility plugins to extra/ directory
Filippo Valsorda (24 Dec 25)
cmd/age-plugin-batchpass: plugin for non-interactive passphrase encryption Fixes #603 Closes #641 Closes #520 Updates #256 Updates #182 Updates #257 Updates #275 Updates #346 Updates #386 Updates #445 Updates #590 Updates #572
Filippo Valsorda (23 Dec 25)
age,cmd/age: improve error messages for mixed up identities/recipients Not sure why ParseRecipients was hiding errors, when ParseIdentities doesn't. For #643

age Security

5.2/10

Repo Security Summary

Updated 25 May 26

Maintained 5/10
Dangerous-Workflow 10/10
Packaging N/A
Code-Review 1/10
Binary-Artifacts 10/10
Token-Permissions 10/10
Pinned-Dependencies 0/10
CII-Best-Practices 0/10
Fuzzing 10/10
License 10/10
Branch-Protection 0/10
Signed-Releases 0/10
Security-Policy 9/10
SAST 0/10

Security Advisories (1)

medium Patched

GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c Malicious plugin names, recipients, or identities can cause arbitrary binary execution

18 Dec 24

age Website

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Server Details

IP Address 66.241.124.52
Hostname ip-66-241-124-52.shared.customer.flyio.net
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, NA
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ASN AS40509

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age Docker

Container Info

Collect events and metrics

#Monitoring datadog/agent:latest

Run Command

docker run -d \
  -e DD_API_KEY=${DD_API_KEY} \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
  -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/host/sys/fs/cgroup:ro \
  -v /proc:/host/proc:ro \
  datadog/agent:latest

Compose File

version: 3.8
services:
  datadog-agent-container:
    image: "datadog/agent:latest"
    environment:
      DD_API_KEY: 
    volumes:
      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
      - "/sys/fs/cgroup:/host/sys/fs/cgroup"
      - "/proc:/host/proc"

Environment Variables

Var Name Default
DD_API_KEY null

Volume Mounting

/var/run/docker.sock /var/run/docker.sock
/sys/fs/cgroup /host/sys/fs/cgroup
/proc /host/proc

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