Draft:age (Encryption software)

age

Original author(s)	Filippo Valsorda Ben Cox
Developer(s)	Filippo Valsorda Google LLC
Initial release	September 2021 (September 2021)
Stable release	age v1.2.1 / December 18 2024 (December 18 2024)
Written in	Go
Operating system	macOS, Windows, Unix
Standard(s)	RFC 5234, 7405, 4648, 5869, 7539, 2104, 7748, 7914, 7468
Type	Encryption software
License	BSD 3-Clause Revised

age (actually good encryption) is an encryption library that performs symmetric and asymmetric. It's written in the Go programming language with ports written in the Rust and Typescript programming languages.

See also

• Bernstein v. United States
• Electronic envelope
• Email encryption
• Email privacy
• GNU Privacy Guard
• Gpg4win
• Key server (cryptographic)
• PGP word list
• PGPDisk
• Pretty Easy privacy
• Privacy software
• Public-key cryptography
• S/MIME
• X.509
• ZRTP

Further reading

• Garfinkel, Simson (1995). PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. O'Reilly & Associates. ISBN 1-56592-098-8.
• Levy, Steven (January 8, 2001). Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140244328.
• Lucas, Michael W. (April 1, 2006). PGP & GPG Email for the Practical Paranoid. No Starch Press. ISBN 978-1-59327-071-1.
• Zimmermann, Phil (June 1991). "Why I Wrote PGP". Retrieved March 3, 2008.

External links

• OpenPGP::SDK
• MIT Public Key Directory for Registration and Search
• List of public keyservers
• IETF OpenPGP working group
• OpenPGP Alliance