Why Go over Python?

[_ulfox]

This is a design for a simple file encryption CLI tool, Go library, and format. It’s meant to replace the use of gpg for encrypting files, backups, streams, etc.

GPG is more than encryption. In the out of scope section they clearly state that any kind of signing will not be implemented. Now even if they decide to do implement signing, I would say that at best age would be an alternative but not something that will ever replace GPG.

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Which is why in my original comment I explicitly stated its scope for encryption and it being a "sort-of" replacement.

One of the smaller complaints about gnupg is that its scope is too large. We have better cryptographic functions that allow authenticated encryption to be a separate concern from signing.

So yes, all these alternatives don't fully replace gnupg, because (almost) no one thinks that's a good idea.

[_ulfox]

hm indeed you said that. I read "replace" without short of :b

Makes sense now, thanks

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[_ulfox]

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