age seems to be the new hot thing to encrypt data.
However, when you generate a key pair, the private key just sits as a plaintext file on your computer.
Maybe I’m too used to PGP, but this makes me a bit nervous. There doesn’t see to be a key manager that allows you to pass in a key id with which you encrypt / decrypt. It’s all done using the public key directly in the command line (for encrypting), or the plaintext private key file (to decrypt).
Am I missing something? Is there a better / easier way to manage these private key files?
The pgp private key sitting on your computer is also plain text… Unless you encrypt it
Right? Op is trying to personify “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all or if ideas”. It’s almost like it’s a beast practice to encrypt data at rest, including your pain text keys.
Have you actually used age?
Unlike gpg, encryption of the private key is not default (or straightforward). It also doesn’t have a key management system